United States v. Herschel Caruthers , 479 F. App'x 651 ( 2012 )

Case: 12-40225 Document: 00512003119 Page: 1 Date Filed: 09/28/2012
IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT United States Court of Appeals
Fifth Circuit
FILED
September 28, 2012
No. 12-40225
Summary Calendar Lyle W. Cayce
Clerk
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff-Appellee
v.
HERSCHEL WAYNE CARUTHERS,
Defendant-Appellant
Appeal from the United States District Court
for the Southern District of Texas
USDC No. 2:11-CR-763-1
Before REAVLEY, JOLLY, and DAVIS, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM:*
The Federal Public Defender appointed to represent Herschel Wayne
Caruthers 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). Caruthers has filed a response. The record is
insufficiently developed to allow consideration at this time of Caruthers’s claims
of ineffective assistance of counsel; such claims generally “cannot be resolved on
direct appeal when the claim has not been raised before the district court since
*
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 R. 47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not
be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5TH CIR.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.
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no opportunity existed to develop the record 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 Caruthers’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. Caruthers’s motion for the
appointment of substitute counsel is DENIED.
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