Affirmed and Opinion Filed November 5, 2015 

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No. 05-14-01431-CR CODY TYLER JONES, Appellant V. THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee On Appeal from the 204th Judicial District Court Dallas County, Texas Trial Court Cause No. F12-00978-Q 

### MEMORANDUM OPINION Before Justices Bridges, Francis, and Myers Opinion by Justice Francis Cody Tyler Jones was charged with injury to a child. Under an agreement with the State, he pleaded guilty and was placed on deferred adj udication for seven years. The State moved to adjudicate his guilt on the ground th at he violated condition q of his community supervision and following a hearing, the trial cour t granted the State’s motion an d sentenced appellant to ten years in prison. In a single issue, appellant cl aims the evidence adduced at the hearing fails to establish he violated condition q as alleged by the State. We affirm. Appellant was initially charged with the aggr avated sexual assault of a thirteen-year-old child. The State offered to reduce that charge to a lesser charge of injury to a child in exchange for appellant’s guilty plea. During the Novemb er 9, 2012 hearing when a ppellant was placed on community supervision, the trial court ordere d him to the Dallas County Judicial Treatment–2– Center at Wilmer for drug and alcohol treatment. The trial court stated appellant was to “successfully complete the Wilmer program” before having a sex offender evaluation because the court did not “want anything messing him up going [to Wilmer].” The State agreed and suggested that if the sex offender evaluation “doe sn’t indicate that he has any problems, [the State would agree] to – to w ithdraw–[requirement q] from hi s probation.” Appellant then pleaded guilty, and the trial court deferred adjudication of guilt, placed him on seven years community supervision, and signed the order w ith the conditions of co mmunity supervision, including condition q which provides: Within 45 days from referral, [appellant must] participate in counseling through An Approved Registered Sex Offender Treatment Provider and continue in counseling as required making observable de liberate and diligent effort to comply with all directives and instructions provided by The Regist ered Sex Offender Treatment Provider or its staff. The notation “SEX OFFENDER EVALUATION” was handwritten at the end of condition q. On December 7, 2012, the trial court modi fied appellant’s conditions of probation, deleted the condition requiring he attend the Wilmer treatment center and added the condition that appellant participate and complete the Subs tance Abuse Punishment Facility Program. In late March 2014, the State moved to adjudicate gu ilt alleging appellant violated “condition (q) in that s(he) was unsuccessfully discharged from Sex Offender Treatment.” Following a hearing, the trial court granted the State’s motion and sentenced appellant to ten years in prison. In his sole issue, appellant claims the ev idence is insufficient to show he violated condition q because the condition required only that he be evaluated for sex offender treatment, not that he attend or complete treatment. He also says the evidence does not show he was unsuccessfully discharged from sex offender trea tment and the trial court erred by adjudicating his guilt based on th is allegation.–3– We review a trial court’s deci sion to revoke probation and adj udicate guilt fo r an abuse of discretion, taking into account the sufficiency of the evidence supporting the basis for revocation. Hacker v. State , 389 S.W.3d 860, 865–66 (Tex. Crim. App. 2013). The State must prove a ground for revocation of probation by a preponderance of the evidence. See id . at 864– 65. The trial court is the sole judge of the witne sses’ credibility and the weight to be given to their testimony. Id . at 865. Appellant’s argument that he was not required to attend sex offender treatment is based on a poor copy of the conditions of probation that a ppear in the clerk’s record. He says condition q “appears” to be “crossed out.” Condition q on th at copy seems to have been highlighted and is, in fact, difficult to read. However, a review of the record shows that during the September 19, 2014 hearing on the State’s motion to proceed with an adjudication of guilt, the State offered, and the trial court admitted without any object ion, a copy of the November 2012 “Conditions of Community Supervision” signed by appellant and the trial court. This copy is State’s exhibit 2 and is contained in the reporter’s record. Condition q, which states appellant “must participate in counseling through An Approved Registered Sex Offender Treatment Provi der and continue in counseling as required making observable delibera te and diligent effort to comply with all directives and instructions provided by The Regi stered Sex Offender Treatment Provider or its staff,” is not crossed out or highlighted. Thus, contrary to appellant’s assertions, condition q was a valid requirement of appella nt’s community supervision. The reporter’s record from the November 2012 hearing shows the trial court wanted appellant to complete the Wilmer treatment pr ogram before being evaluated for sex offender treatment. And while the State agreed appellan t should not be required to attend sex offender

treatment if the evaluation revealed he did not ha ve a problem, the record shows he was evaluated and, in light of the results, was admitted to sex offender treatment for group therapy.–4– On this record, we conclude appellant’s claim that he was required only to be evaluated lacks merit. To the extent appellant argues, in a single sentence, that there is no evidence he “was unsuccessfully discharged” from sex offender trea tment, the record shows the opposite. Tonya Butler testified during the September 2014 hearing that appellant was refe rred to her for a sex offender evaluation by his probation officer. While Butler was conducting the evaluation, appellant admitted he “reoffended for a sexual assault against a 13-year-old” after completing the thirteen-month Wilmer drug program. Butle r completed the evaluation and recommended appellant be transferred to the sex offender tr eatment unit for supervision. In addition, she recommended he (1) undergo a psychological asse ssment, (2) refrain from using alcohol, drugs, and pornography, (3) complete annu al maintenance and monitoring polygraphs, (4) complete an immediate monitoring polygraph, and (5 ) attend weekly group therapy. Appellant attended Butler’s weekly group th erapy sessions from December 27, 2013 until he was unsuccessfully discharg ed on March 25, 2014. Butler stat ed she discharged appellant because during the sessions, he disclosed he was continuing to commit sexual offenses and display inappropriate behavior. When asked to elaborate, Butler said appellant admitted (1) assaulting two minors, (2) following numerous girls, ranging in age from 12 to 15 years of age, from the bus stop to their homes and saying he “was scared of what he would do every time he followed [the girls] home,” (3) exposing his peni s to approximately fifteen to twenty victims ranging in ages from 3 to 12 years old, (4) exposing his penis to numerous adults, including an adult female at a car wash approximately one w eek before he was discharged, (5) masturbating in the presence of others, including a three-year old child, (6) looking at child pornography, (7) researching date-rape drugs, and (8) attempting to penetrate a dog on four occasions. According–5– to Butler, appellant was not “tr eatable” in her program, and he “ doesn’t want to stop doing what he’s doing.” In light of this record, we conclude the tria l court did not abuse its discretion adjudicating appellant guilty. We overrule a ppellant’s sole issue on appeal. We affirm the trial court’s judgment.

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Court of Appeals Fifth District of Texas at Dallas JUDGMENT

CODY TYLER JONES, Appellant
No. 05-14-01431-CR V. THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee On Appeal from the 204th Judicial District Court, Dallas County, Texas Trial Court Cause No. F12-00978-Q. Opinion delivered by Justice Francis, Justices Bridges and Myers participating. Based on the Court’s opinion of this da te, the judgment of the trial court is AFFIRMED

. Judgment entered November 5, 2015.