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02-11-544-CR

COURT OF APPEALS
SECOND DISTRICT OF TEXAS
FORT WORTH
 

 
 
NO. 02-11-00544-CR
 
 

Anthony Recardo Williams, Jr.

 

APPELLANT

 
V.
 

The State of Texas

 

STATE

 
 
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FROM Criminal
District Court No. 4 OF Tarrant COUNTY
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MEMORANDUM
OPINION[1]
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Pursuant
to a plea bargain, Appellant Anthony Recardo Williams, Jr. pleaded guilty to burglary
of a habitation.  See Tex. Penal Code Ann. § 30.02(c)(2) (West
2011).  In accordance with the terms of the plea bargain, the trial court placed
him on six years= deferred adjudication
community supervision and sentenced him to pay a $600 fine.  The State
subsequently filed a petition to proceed to adjudication, alleging that Williams
had violated four conditions of his community supervision.  Williams pleaded Atrue@ to three
of the violations alleged in the State’s petition.  The trial court found that
three paragraphs of the petition were true, adjudicated Williams guilty, and
sentenced him to five years= confinement.  This appeal
followed.
          Williams’s
court-appointed appellate counsel has filed a motion to withdraw as counsel and
a brief in support of that motion.  Counsel’s brief and motion meet the
requirements of Anders v. California[2]
by presenting a professional evaluation of the record demonstrating why there
are no arguable grounds for relief.  This court afforded Williams the
opportunity to file a brief on his own behalf, but he did not do so.
As
the reviewing court, we must conduct an independent evaluation of the record to
determine whether counsel is correct in determining that the appeal is
frivolous.  See Stafford v. State, 813 S.W.2d 503, 511 (Tex. Crim. App.
1991); Mays v. State, 904 S.W.2d 920, 923 (Tex. App.—Fort Worth 1995, no
pet.).  Only then may we grant counsel’s motion to withdraw.  See Penson v.
Ohio, 488 U.S. 75, 82–83, 109 S. Ct. 346, 351 (1988). 
We
have carefully reviewed the record and counsel’s brief.  We agree with counsel
that this appeal is wholly frivolous and without merit; we find nothing in the
record that arguably might support an appeal.  See Bledsoe v. State, 178
S.W.3d 824, 827–28 (Tex. Crim. App. 2005).  Accordingly, we grant counsel’s
motion to withdraw and affirm the trial court’s judgment.
 
 
PER CURIAM
 
 
PANEL: 
WALKER, GARDNER, and MCCOY, JJ.
 
DO
NOT PUBLISH
Tex.
R. App. P. 47.2(b)
 
DELIVERED:  October 4, 2012
 

 

COURT OF APPEALS
SECOND DISTRICT OF TEXAS
FORT WORTH
 

 
NO. 02-11-00544-CR
 
 

Anthony
  Recardo Williams, Jr.
 
 
 
v.
 
 
 
The
  State of Texas

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From Criminal District
  Court No. 4
 
of
  Tarrant County (1077132D)
 
October
  4, 2012
 
Per
  Curiam
 
(nfp)

 
JUDGMENT
 
          This
court has considered the record on appeal in this case and holds that there was
no error in the trial court’s judgment.  It is ordered that the judgment of the
trial court is affirmed. 
 
SECOND DISTRICT COURT OF APPEALS 
 
 
PER
CURIAM
 

[1]See Tex. R. App. P. 47.4.

[2]386 U.S. 738, 87 S. Ct.
1396 (1967).