Court Opinion

ID: 6351109
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-06-20 00:17:11.076068+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:49:31.675253
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IN THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS
                        OF TEXAS
                                        NO. WR-20,263-17

                      EX PARTE WILLIAM BOYD PIERCE, Applicant

             ON APPLICATION FOR A WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS
         CAUSE NO. F-2003-0377-C-WHC 7 IN THE 211TH DISTRICT COURT
                           FROM DENTON COUNTY

       Per curiam.

                                            ORDER

       Applicant was convicted of sexual assault and sentenced to sixty years’ imprisonment. The

Second Court of Appeals affirmed his conviction. Pierce v. State, No. 02-03-00517-CR (Tex.

App.—Fort Worth Aug. 12, 2004) (not designated for publication). Applicant filed this application

for a writ of habeas corpus in the county of conviction, and the district clerk forwarded it to this

Court. See TEX . CODE CRIM . PROC. art. 11.07.

       We have previously dismissed five subsequent applications in this cause. See TEX . CODE

CRIM . PROC. art. 11.07, § 4. It is obvious from the record that Applicant continues to raise grounds

that were previously rejected on the merits or that should have been raised in previous applications.
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We hold that Applicant has abused the writ and filed a frivolous lawsuit. See Ex parte Jones, 97

S.W.3d 586 (Tex. Crim. App. 2003); TEX . GOV ’T CODE § 498.0045(a-1). Should Applicant file

future habeas applications in this cause, we will not consider the merits of his applications unless

he shows that the factual or legal basis of his grounds was unavailable in a previously filed

application. This application is dismissed.

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

Institutions Division and the Board of Pardons and Paroles.

Filed: June 15, 2022
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