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              IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

                      FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT
                        ________________________                   FILED
                                                         U.S. COURT OF APPEALS
                               No. 08-13185                ELEVENTH CIRCUIT
                                                              December 15, 2008
                           Non-Argument Calendar
                                                            THOMAS K. KAHN
                         ________________________
                                                                  CLERK

                      D. C. Docket No. 07-00277-CR-CG

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,


                                                                Plaintiff-Appellee,

                                    versus

CHIEMERE NICOLE THEARD,

                                                           Defendant-Appellant.


                         ________________________

                 Appeal from the United States District Court
                    for the Southern District of Alabama
                       _________________________
                             (December 15, 2008)


Before BIRCH, CARNES and HULL, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

     Elsie Mae Miller, appointed counsel for Chiemere Theard, has filed a motion
to withdraw on appeal supported by a brief prepared pursuant to Anders

v. California, 386 U.S. 738, 87 S.Ct. 1396, 18 L.Ed.2d 493 (1967). Our

independent review of the entire record reveals that counsel’s assessment of the

relative merit of the appeal is correct. Because independent examination of the

entire record reveals no issues of arguable merit, counsel’s motion to withdraw is

GRANTED and Theard’s convictions and sentences are AFFIRMED.




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