Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2023-03-20 08:08:30.431571+00
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In the
        Court of Appeals
Second Appellate District of Texas
         at Fort Worth
     ___________________________

          No. 02-22-00253-CR
     ___________________________

   LARRY JOE BREWER JR., Appellant

                    V.

         THE STATE OF TEXAS

  On Appeal from the 415th District Court
          Parker County, Texas
       Trial Court No. CR21-1013

 Before Womack, Wallach, and Walker, JJ.
 Memorandum Opinion by Justice Womack
                          MEMORANDUM OPINION

       Appellant Larry Joe Brewer Jr. attempts to appeal a judgment adjudicating him

guilty of fraudulent use or possession of identifying information. See Tex. Penal Code

Ann. § 32.51(c)(1). Brewer pleaded true to the State’s probation-violation allegations,

and the trial court sentenced him to thirteen months’ confinement. Pursuant to the

written plea admonishments that were signed by Brewer, Brewer waived his right to

appeal. The “Trial Court’s Certification of Defendant’s Right of Appeal” in this case

states that “the defendant has waived the right of appeal” and that this “is a plea-

bargain case, and the defendant has NO right of appeal.”            See Tex. R. App.

P. 25.2(a)(2), (d).

       On November 8, 2022, we notified Brewer of the certification and warned him

that we would dismiss the appeal unless we received a response by November 18,

2022, showing grounds for continuing the appeal. See Tex. R. App. P. 25.2(a)(2), (d),

44.3. While Brewer filed a response, it does not show grounds for continuing the

appeal.1 In accordance with the trial court’s certification, we dismiss Brewer’s appeal.

See Tex. R. App. P. 25.2(d), 43.2(f); see, e.g., Turntine v. State, No. 02-18-00348-CR,

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        In his response, Brewer claims that he “was forced to plead guilty” and that he
“was never properly advised of [his] rights” by his counsel. We have reviewed the
transcript of the subject revocation hearing. During that hearing, Brewer indicated
that he had signed his plea “voluntarily,” that he had “[h]ad plenty of time to talk to
[his] lawyer about [the charges brought against him],” that it was “true” that he had
violated his probation, and that he was telling the court about that violation
“voluntarily.”

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2018 WL 5074612, at *1 (Tex. App.—Fort Worth Oct. 18, 2018, no pet.) (per curiam)

(mem. op., not designated for publication).

                                                 /s/ Dana Womack

                                                 Dana Womack
                                                 Justice

Do Not Publish
Tex. R. App. P. 47.2(b)

Delivered: March 16, 2023

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