Court Opinion

ID: 6103512
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Date Created: 2022-01-14 08:12:56.338536+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:17:57.894423
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In The

                                Court of Appeals

                    Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont

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                               NO. 09-21-00271-CR
                               NO. 09-21-00272-CR
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                 CHADRICK EUGENE BRADLEY, Appellant

                                         V.

                       THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee

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                On Appeal from the 221st District Court
                      Montgomery County, Texas
         Trial Cause Nos. 20-01-00617-CR and 21-02-02579-CR
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                          MEMORANDUM OPINION

      On August 31, 2021, the trial court sentenced Chadrick Eugene Bradley in

trial cause numbers 20-01-00617-CR and 21-02-02579-CR. Bradley filed notices of

appeal and motions for new trial. On November 9, 2021, the trial court granted

Bradley’s motions for new trial as to punishment only. See Tex. R. App. P. 21.9(c);

see also State v. Davis, 349 S.W.3d 535, 537 (Tex. Crim. App. 2011) (trial courts

have the authority to grant new trials on punishment). We notified the parties that it

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appeared Bradley’s notices of appeal did not invoke our appellate jurisdiction,

because the trial court granted motions for new trial within the time permitted by the

Texas Rules of Appellate Procedure. We gave the parties until December 29, 2021,

to file a response that showed this Court has jurisdiction over appeals of the trial

court’s judgments. No party filed a response.

      Generally, an appeal may be taken by a defendant in a criminal case only after

a final conviction. See Tex. R. App. P. 26.2(a) (establishing time for appeal by a

defendant after a sentence is imposed in open court or the trial court signs an

appealable order). The notices of appeal were timely filed, but the trial court later

vacated the judgments while it retained plenary power over the judgments. See Tex.

R. App. P. 21.8(a). Therefore, this Court lacks jurisdiction over the appeals.

Accordingly, we dismiss the appeals. See Tex. R. App. P. 43.2(f).

      APPEALS DISMISSED.

                                                           PER CURIAM

Submitted on January 11, 2022
Opinion Delivered January 12, 2022
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Before Golemon, C.J., Horton and Johnson, JJ.

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