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Case: 10-30904     Document: 00511508499          Page: 1    Date Filed: 06/14/2011

           IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
                    FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT  United States Court of Appeals
                                                    Fifth Circuit

                                                 FILED
                                                                            June 14, 2011
                                     No. 10-30904
                                   Summary Calendar                         Lyle W. Cayce
                                                                                 Clerk

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

                                                   Plaintiff-Appellee

v.

BRIAN S. MOSS,

                                                   Defendant-Appellant

                    Appeal from the United States District Court
                       for the Western District of Louisiana
                             USDC No. 5:09-CR-279-10

Before JOLLY, GARZA, and STEWART, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM:*
        The attorney appointed to represent Brian S. Moss has moved for leave to
withdraw and has filed a brief in accordance with Anders v. California, 386 U.S.
738 (1967), and United States v. Flores, 632 F.3d 229 (5th Cir. 2011). Moss has
filed a response. The record is insufficiently developed to allow consideration at
this time of Moss’s claim of ineffective assistance of counsel; such a claim
generally “cannot be resolved on direct appeal when the claim has not been
raised before the district court since no opportunity existed to develop the record

       *
         Pursuant to 5TH CIR . R. 47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not
be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5TH CIR .
R. 47.5.4.
   Case: 10-30904    Document: 00511508499      Page: 2   Date Filed: 06/14/2011

                                  No. 10-30904

on the merits of the allegations.” United States v. Cantwell, 470 F.3d 1087, 1091
(5th Cir. 2006) (internal quotation marks and citation omitted).         We have
reviewed counsel’s brief and the relevant portions of the record reflected therein,
as well as Moss’s response. We concur with counsel’s assessment that the appeal
presents no nonfrivolous issue for appellate review. Accordingly, the motion for
leave to withdraw is GRANTED, counsel is excused from further responsibilities
herein, and the APPEAL IS DISMISSED. See 5 TH C IR. R. 42.2.

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