Court Opinion

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Fourth Court of Appeals
                                       San Antonio, Texas
                                   MEMORANDUM OPINION
                                           No. 04-13-00321-CR

                                            Joe L. MIRELES,
                                                Appellant

                                                  v.
                                             The STATE of
                                          The STATE of Texas,
                                                Appellee

                      From the 227th Judicial District Court, Bexar County, Texas
                                    Trial Court No. 2010CR6904
                           Honorable Philip A. Kazen, Jr., Judge Presiding

Opinion by:       Catherine Stone, Chief Justice

Sitting:          Catherine Stone, Chief Justice
                  Marialyn Barnard, Justice
                  Patricia O. Alvarez, Justice

Delivered and Filed: December 31, 2013

AFFIRMED

           The sole issues raised in this appeal relate to the trial court’s imposition of court costs and

attorney’s fees in the judgment adjudicating Joe L. Mireles’s guilt and revoking his community

supervision. We affirm the trial court’s judgment.

                                              BACKGROUND

           Mireles pled nolo contendere to the offense of failing to register as a sex offender and was

placed on deferred adjudication community supervision. The State subsequently filed a motion to
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adjudicate Mireles’s guilt, and Mireles pled true to violating a term of his community supervision.

The trial court adjudicated Mireles’s guilt and sentenced him to fifteen years’ imprisonment.

                                           COURT COSTS

       In his first issue, Mireles contends the evidence is insufficient to support the trial court’s

assessment of court costs because the record contains no bill of costs. After Mireles filed his brief,

however, a supplemental clerk’s record was filed containing a bill of costs. Mireles did not file a

reply brief or an amended brief contending the bill of costs was erroneous or did not support the

court costs assessed by the trial court. Accordingly, Mireles’s first issue is overruled. See Crisp

v. State, No. 02-13-00041-CR, 2013 WL 5488710, at *2 (Tex. App.—Fort Worth Oct. 3, 2013, no

pet. h.); see also Mata v. State, No. 04-13-00173-CV, 2013 WL 5570841, at *2 (Tex. App.—San

Antonio Oct. 9, 2013, no pet. h.) (not designated for publication).

                                        ATTORNEY’S FEES

       In his second issue, Mireles contends the evidence is insufficient to show that his financial

circumstances materially changed after he was found indigent at the time of his original plea. As

a result, Mireles asserts attorney’s fees could not be assessed against him.

       As the State notes in its brief, however, Mireles has waived the right to complain of this

issue on appeal. The order deferring adjudication of Mireles’s guilt and placing him on community

supervision also assessed attorney’s fees against him. In failing to raise this complaint in an appeal

of the order of deferred adjudication, Mireles waived his right to complain about this issue when

his guilt was adjudicated and sentence was imposed. See Wiley v. State, 410 S.W.3d 313, 320–21

(Tex. Crim. App. 2013).

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                                       CONCLUSION

     The trial court’s judgment is affirmed.

                                                Catherine Stone, Chief Justice

DO NOT PUBLISH

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