Court Opinion

ID: 3192800
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-04-11 16:12:14.063575+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:30:39.102600
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IN THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS
                          OF TEXAS
                                         NO. WR-82,867-02

                            EX PARTE DAVID RAY LEA, Applicant

                  ON APPLICATION FOR A WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS
                  CAUSE NO. 68268-A IN THE 239TH DISTRICT COURT
                            FROM BRAZORIA COUNTY

        Per curiam. Yeary, J., filed a dissenting opinion.

                                            OPINION

        Pursuant to the provisions of Article 11.07 of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure, the

clerk of the trial court transmitted to this Court this application for a writ of habeas corpus. Ex parte

Young, 418 S.W.2d 824, 826 (Tex. Crim. App. 1967). Applicant pleaded guilty to improper

photography without consent and was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment in state jail. He did not

appeal his conviction.

        This Court, in Ex parte Thompson, held unconstitutional the improper photography statute

for which Applicant was convicted. Ex parte Thompson, 442 S.W.3d 325 (Tex. Crim. App. 2014).

Applicant filed this habeas application based on the Thompson decision and asks that his conviction
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be set aside. Applicant alleges, inter alia, that he was convicted pursuant to a statute that has been

found unconstitutional by this Court. See Ex parte Thompson, 442 S.W.3d 325 (Tex. Crim. App.

2014). The trial court recommends that relief be granted in this cause. We agree.

       Relief is granted. The judgment in Cause No. 68268 in the 239th District Court of Brazoria

County is set aside and Applicant is remanded to the custody of the Sheriff of Brazoria County to

answer the charges as set out in the indictment so that the indictment may be disposed of in

accordance with this Court’s opinion in Ex parte Thompson. The trial court shall issue any necessary

bench warrant within 10 days after the mandate of this Court issues.

       Copies of this opinion shall be sent to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice–Correctional

Institutions Division and Pardons and Paroles Division.

Delivered: April 6, 2016
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