United States v. Dejuan Willis

Case: 16-10314 Document: 00514040142 Page: 1 Date Filed: 06/20/2017

IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT
United States Court of Appeals
Fifth Circuit
No. 16-10314 FILED
Conference Calendar June 20, 2017
Lyle W. Cayce
Clerk
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

Plaintiff-Appellee

DEJUAN LAMONT WILLIS,

Defendant-Appellant

Appeals from the United States District Court
for the Northern District of Texas
USDC No. 5:12-CR-1-1

Before SMITH, CLEMENT, and COSTA, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM: *
The attorney appointed to represent Dejuan Lamont Willis has moved
for leave to withdraw and has filed a brief and supplemental brief pursuant to
Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738 (1967), and United States v. Flores, 632 F.3d
229 (5th Cir. 2011). Willis has filed a response. The record is not sufficiently
developed to allow us to make a fair evaluation of Willis’s claims of ineffective
assistance of counsel; we therefore decline to consider the claims without

* 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 R. 47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not
be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5TH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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prejudice to collateral review. See United States v. Isgar, 739 F.3d 829, 841
(5th Cir. 2014).
We have reviewed counsel’s briefs and the relevant portions of the record
reflected therein, as well as Willis’s response. We concur with counsel’s
assessment that the appeal presents no nonfrivolous issue for appellate review.
See United States v. Pesina-Rodriguez, 825 F.3d 787, 788 (5th Cir. 2016).
Accordingly, counsel’s motion for leave to withdraw is GRANTED, counsel is
excused from further responsibilities herein, Willis’s motion to vacate sentence
and remand for resentencing is DENIED, and the APPEAL IS DISMISSED.
See 5TH CIR. R. 42.2.