Opinion
No. 17-10332
03-19-2018
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. TEOFILO BASOCO VEGA, a.k.a. Teofilo Vega Basoco, a.k.a. Teofilo Basoco-Vega, Defendant-Appellant.
NOT FOR PUBLICATION
D.C. No. 2:17-cr-00660-GMS MEMORANDUM Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Arizona
G. Murray Snow, District Judge, Presiding Before: LEAVY, M. SMITH, and CHRISTEN, Circuit Judges.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.
Teofilo Basoco Vega appeals from the district court's judgment and challenges his guilty-plea conviction and ten-month sentence for reentry of a removed alien, in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326. Pursuant to Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738 (1967), Vega's counsel has filed a brief stating that there are no grounds for relief, along with a motion to withdraw as counsel of record. Vega has filed a letter, which we treat as a pro se supplemental brief. No answering brief has been filed.
Vega waived his right to appeal his conviction and sentence. Our independent review of the record pursuant to Penson v. Ohio, 488 U.S. 75, 80 (1988), discloses no arguable issue as to the validity of the waiver. See United States v. Watson, 582 F.3d 974, 986-88 (9th Cir. 2009). We accordingly dismiss the appeal. See id. at 988.
We decline to address on direct appeal Vega's pro se claim of ineffective assistance of counsel. See United States v. Rahman, 642 F.3d 1257, 1259-60 (9th Cir. 2011).
Counsel's motion to withdraw is GRANTED.
DISMISSED.