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Date Created: 2020-09-29 18:00:30.920432+00
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Case: 19-40848     Document: 00515582156         Page: 1     Date Filed: 09/29/2020

              United States Court of Appeals
                   for the Fifth Circuit                          United States Court of Appeals
                                                                           Fifth Circuit

                                                                         FILED
                                  No. 19-40848                   September 29, 2020
                               Conference Calendar                  Lyle W. Cayce
                                                                         Clerk

   United States of America,

                                                             Plaintiff—Appellee,

                                       versus

   Roberto Marcus Montes, Jr.,

                                                         Defendant—Appellant.

                  Appeal from the United States District Court
                      for the Southern District of Texas
                           USDC No. 5:18-CR-287-1

   Before Graves, Willett, and Duncan, Circuit Judges.
   Per Curiam:*
          The Federal Public Defender appointed to represent Roberto Marcus
   Montes, Jr., 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). Montes has filed a response. The

          *
            Pursuant to 5th Circuit Rule 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   opinion should not be published and is not precedent except under the limited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 Circuit Rule 47.5.4.
Case: 19-40848      Document: 00515582156          Page: 2   Date Filed: 09/29/2020

                                    No. 19-40848

   record is not sufficiently developed to allow us to make a fair evaluation of
   Montes’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 Montes’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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