Court Opinion

ID: 9663050
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Date Created: 2023-08-23 23:26:45.834464+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:14:45.113706
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OPINION
LIVINGSTON, Justice.
In 1992, James Gareau pleaded guilty pursuant to a plea bargain agreement to the offense of indecency with a child, and the trial court placed him on deferred adjudication for eight years. In 1994, the State moved to proceed to an adjudication of guilt because Gareau had failed to comply with the terms of his probation. He pleaded true to the allegations in the motion to proceed to adjudication of guilt, and the court adjudicated his guilt and sentenced him to ten years in the Institutional Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
In his sole point of error, Gareau claims that he received ineffective assistance of counsel at the proceeding to adjudicate guilt and that because of this ineffective assis*253tance, his plea of trae was involuntary. Although not argued by the State, article 42.12, section 5 of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure states that a determination to adjudicate guilt may not be appealed. Tex. Code CRIM.PROC.Ann. art. 42.12, § 5 (Vernon Supp.1996); Phynes v. State, 828 S.W.2d 1, 2 (Tex.Crim.App.1992) (holding that defendant could not appeal the determination to adjudicate guilt even though his counsel was not present at the adjudication hearing); Olowosuko v. State, 826 S.W.2d 940, 941-42 (Tex.Crim.App.1992); Edwards v. State, 835 S.W.2d 660, 663 (Tex.App. — Dallas 1992, no pet.). We dismiss his point of error for want of jurisdiction.
DAUPHINOT, J., concurs with opinion.