Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2024-03-16 00:00:39.064986+00
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Case: 23-10947            Document: 40-1         Page: 1      Date Filed: 03/15/2024

           United States Court of Appeals
                for the Fifth Circuit
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                                                                             United States Court of Appeals
                                                                                      Fifth Circuit
                                    No. 23-10947
                                  Summary Calendar                                  FILED
                                  ____________                                March 15, 2024
                                                                               Lyle W. Cayce
United States of America,                                                           Clerk

                                                                    Plaintiff—Appellee,

                                          versus

Christopher Lee Lowe,

                                            Defendant—Appellant.
                   ______________________________

                   Appeal from the United States District Court
                       for the Northern District of Texas
                             USDC No. 1:22-CR-54-2
                   ______________________________

Before Jones, Southwick, and Ho, Circuit Judges.
Per Curiam: *
       The attorney appointed to represent Christopher Lee Lowe 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). Lowe has filed a response. The record is not sufficiently
developed to allow us to make a fair evaluation of Lowes’s claims of

       _____________________
       *
           This opinion is not designated for publication. See 5th Cir. R. 47.5.
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                                 No. 23-10947

ineffective assistance of counsel; we therefore decline to consider the claims
without prejudice to collateral review. See United States v. Isgar, 739 F.3d
829, 841 (5th Cir. 2014).
       We have reviewed counsel’s brief and the relevant portions of the
record reflected therein, as well as Lowe’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 5th Cir. R. 42.2.

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