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Date Created: 2023-02-27 16:00:46.795092+00
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Case: 22-10550         Document: 00516651223             Page: 1      Date Filed: 02/20/2023

              United States Court of Appeals
                   for the Fifth Circuit
                                      ____________
                                                                               United States Court of Appeals
                                                                                        Fifth Circuit
                                       No. 22-10550
                                     Summary Calendar                                 FILED
                                     ____________                              February 20, 2023
                                                                                 Lyle W. Cayce
   United States of America,                                                          Clerk

                                                                      Plaintiff—Appellee,

                                             versus

   Sergio Eleazar Ortega-Torres,

                                               Defendant—Appellant.
                      ______________________________

                      Appeal from the United States District Court
                          for the Northern District of Texas
                               USDC No. 4:21-CR-310-1
                      ______________________________

   Before Stewart, Duncan, and Wilson, Circuit Judges.
   Per Curiam: *
          The Federal Public Defender appointed to represent Sergio Eleazar
   Ortega-Torres 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). Ortega-Torres has filed a response.
   The record is not sufficiently developed to allow us to make a fair evaluation

          _____________________
          *
              This opinion is not designated for publication. See 5th Cir. R. 47.5.
Case: 22-10550      Document: 00516651223          Page: 2      Date Filed: 02/20/2023

                                    No. 22-10550

   of Ortega-Torres’s claims of 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 Ortega-Torres’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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