O pinion filed June 13 , 202 4



### In The 

# Eleventh Court of Appeals

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### TEREL DEVON HOUSTON , Appellant V. THE STATE OF TEXAS , Appellee
On Appeal from the 1 18 t h District Court Howard County, Texas Tri al Court Cause No s . 16720, 16722, & 16916

M E M O R A N D U M O P I N I O N On March 13, 2024, Appellant , Terel Devon Houston , pleaded guilty to three felony offenses: two possession

- of

- a - controlled

- substance offenses and one theft

- of

a - firearm offense

. See T EX
. H EALTH & S AFETY C ODE A NN
. § 481.115 (West Supp. 2023 ); T EX
. P ENAL C ODE A NN
. § 31.03 (a), (e)(4)(C) (West Supp. 2023 ). Pursuant to plea bargain agreement s between Appellant and the State, the trial court sentenced Appellant to ten years’ imprisonment in the Institutional Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice for the possession offenses and 180 days ’ confinement in the State Jail Division of t he Texas Department of Criminal Justice2 fo r the theft

- of

- a - firearm offense

. The trial court ordered that Appellant’s sentences be served concurrently

. Appellant filed a pro se notice of appeal from the trial court’s judgment s
. 1 We dismiss the appeal s
. When these appeals were docketed, we notified A ppellant in each case that the t rial c ourt had certified that (1) this is a plea bargain case in which Appellant has no right of appeal , and (2) Appellant had waived the right of appeal

. See T EX
. R

. A PP
. P. 25.2(a)(2), (d) ; see also T EX
. C ODE C RIM
. P ROC

. A NN . art. 44.02 (West 2018 )

. We requested that A ppellant respond and show grounds to continue the se appeal s , but we have not received a response

. Rule 25.2(a)(2) provides that, in a plea bargain case in which the punishment imposed does not exceed the punishment agreed to by the parties, “a defendant may appeal only: (A) those matters that were raised by written motion filed and ruled on before tria l, (B) after getting the trial court’s permission to appeal, or (C) where the specific appeal is expressly authorized by statute.” T EX
. R. A PP
. P. 25.2(a)(2) ; see also C RIM
. P ROC

. art. 44.02. Subsections (A), (B), and (C) are not applicable here. We fur ther note that Rule 25.2 does not permit a plea

- bargaining defendant to appeal matters related to the voluntariness of his plea unless the defendant has obtained the trial court’s permission to appeal. See Cooper v. State , 45 S.W.3d 77, 83 (Tex. Crim. App. 2001); Carender v. State , 155 S.W.3d 929, 931 (Tex. App.

— Dallas 2005, no pet.). The documents on file show that , in each case, Appellant entered into a plea bargain agreement , his punishment was assessed by the trial co urt in accordance with the plea bargain agreement , and he waived his right of appeal. Further, i n each case , the trial court certified that Appellant has no right of appeal and that he waived t his right

. T he trial court’s certification s were signed by Ap pellant, Appellant’s trial

1 We note that, while Appellant listed all three trial court cause numbers in his pro se notice of appeal, he only request ed an appeal of the ten

- year sentence he “gained through a plea bargain on March 13, 2024.”3 counsel, and the presiding judge of the trial court. The documents on file in this court sup port the trial court’s certification s
. See Dears v. State , 154 S.W.3d 610 , 613

– 14 (Tex. Crim. App. 2005). Accordingly , we must dismis s th ese appeal s without further action. T EX
. R. A PP
. P. 25.2(d); Chavez v. State , 183 S.W.3d 675, 680 (Tex. Crim. App. 2006). W e dismiss the se appeal s
.

W. STACY TROTTER JUSTICE

June 13 , 202 4 Do not publish. See T EX
. R. A PP
. P . 47.2(b). Panel consists of: Bailey, C.J., Trotter, J., and Williams, J.