Court Opinion

ID: 9775904
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 19:12:24.413672+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:32:31.984629
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OVERSTREET, Judge,
dissenting.
While I strongly agree with the portion of this Court’s per curiam opinion in the instant cause which holds that a trial court must conduct a second phase allowing for the presentation of evidence after adjudicating guilt in a deferred adjudication case, I disagree with the conclusion that appellant managed to preserve his claim of error in this case. The record clearly reflects that appellant failed to make a timely objection to the trial court’s action of immediately sentencing him. As this Court’s majority opinion notes, his sole verbalized complaint concerned the length of sentence rather than its immediacy.
Tex.R.App.Proc. 52(a) specifies that to preserve a complaint for appellate review a party must have presented to the trial court a timely request, objection or motion stating the specific grounds for the ruling he desired the court to make if the specific grounds were not apparent from the context. Appellant made no such request, objection or motion at the revocation hearing, and it certainly cannot be said that the claim which he now makes on appeal was apparent from the context.1
The contemporaneous objection rule applies to alleged due process violations in *162the probation revocation process. Rogers v. State, 640 S.W.2d 248, 265 (Tex.Cr.App.1982) (Second Opinion on Rehearing). As there was no attempt to nor request for an opportunity to present punishment evidence, or a timely objection to the trial court’s sentencing without hearing such, there was no preservation of the error in the court’s proceeding in such manner. Therefore the trial court’s judgment and sentence should be affirmed. Because the majority opinion does not do so, I respectfully dissent.
McCORMICK, P.J., and CAMPBELL and WHITE, JJ., join.

. Had appellant truly wanted to present any punishment evidence at the revocation hearing, he certainly had the opportunity to inform the trial court of such desire. His motion for new trial, filed some 26 days after-the-fact, indicates a belated tardy desire to present such evidence.