Case: 10-50478 Document: 00511373307 Page: 1 Date Filed: 02/04/2011
IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT United States Court of Appeals
Fifth Circuit
FILED
February 4, 2011
No. 10-50478
Summary Calendar Lyle W. Cayce
Clerk
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff–Appellee,
v.
TOMMY EARL LANDRUM, JR.,
Defendant–Appellant.
Appeal from the United States District Court
for the Western District of Texas
USDC No. 6:09-CR-183-1
Before WIENER, PRADO, and OWEN, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM:*
The attorney appointed to represent Tommy Earl Landrum, Jr., has moved
for leave to withdraw and has filed a brief in accordance with Anders v.
California, 386 U.S. 738 (1967). Landrum has filed a response. The record is
insufficiently developed to allow consideration at this time of Landrum’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 on the merits of the
*
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 R. 47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not
be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5TH CIR .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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allegations.” United States v. Cantwell, 470 F.3d 1087, 1091 (5th Cir. 2006)
(internal quotation marks and citation omitted). Our independent review of the
record, counsel’s brief, and Landrum’s response discloses no nonfrivolous issue
for appeal. 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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