Court Opinion

ID: 4228256
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2017-12-13 15:26:32.48319+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:11:36.993945
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In The

                                 Court of Appeals
                     Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont
                            ____________________
                               NO. 09-17-00421-CR
                            ____________________

                    RODNEY ELLIOT DUNLAP, Appellant

                                          V.

                        THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee
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                On Appeal from the County Court at Law No. 5
                        Montgomery County, Texas
                         Trial Cause No. 17-322546
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                           MEMORANDUM OPINION

      On September 26, 2017, the trial court sentenced Rodney Elliot Dunlap on a

conviction for possession of drug paraphernalia. Dunlap filed a notice of appeal on

October 26, 2017. The trial court signed a certification indicating that this is a plea-

bargain case and that the defendant had no right to appeal. See Tex. R. App. P.

25.2(a)(2). After the district clerk provided the trial court’s certification to us, we

notified the parties that we would dismiss the appeal unless Dunlap established that

there were grounds on which he could continue pursuing his appeal. Dunlap did not

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file a response to our request, which we sent to him on November 9, 2017. Because

the trial court’s certification shows the defendant has no right to appeal, we must

dismiss the appeal. See Tex. R. App. P. 25.2(d). The appeal is dismissed.

      APPEAL DISMISSED.

                                             ________________________________
                                                     HOLLIS HORTON
                                                           Justice

Submitted on December 12, 2017
Opinion Delivered December 13, 2017
Do Not Publish

Before Kreger, Horton and Johnson, JJ.

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