UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Roberto BALLONES, Jr., Defendant-Appellant, 176 F. App'x 454

PER CURIAM: Roberto Bailones, Jr., appeals his guilty-plea conviction and sentence for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute more than five kilograms of cocaine. For the first time on appeal, Bailones argues that he received ineffective assistance of counsel that made his guilty plea involuntary and his sentence unreasonable. Because Bailones did not raise his claims in the district court, there is no evidentiary record on these issues. Consequently, the record has not been developed sufficiently for us to consider BalJones’s ineffective assistance of counsel claims on direct appeal.

See United States v. Kizzee, 150 F.3d 497, 502-03 (5th Cir. 1998). Accordingly, the judgment of the district court is affirmed without prejudice to Ballones’s right to raise his ineffective assistance of counsel claims in a motion to vacate, set aside, or correct sentence pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255. We express no view on the merits of such a motion. AFFIRMED. Pursuant to 5th Cir. R. 47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5th Cir. R. 47.5.4.