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NO. 07-07-0093-CR
                                  NO. 07-07-0094-CR
                                  NO. 07-07-0095-CR

                             IN THE COURT OF APPEALS

                      FOR THE SEVENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS

                                     AT AMARILLO

                                        PANEL B

                                  JUNE 5, 2007
                         ______________________________

                                 SABAS RODRIGUEZ,

                                                              Appellant

                                            v.

                               THE STATE OF TEXAS,

                                                     Appellee
                       _________________________________

               FROM THE 64TH DISTRICT COURT OF HALE COUNTY;
                 NOS. A15790-0411; A15791-0411; B15950-0503;
                  HON. ROBERT W. KINKAID, JR., PRESIDING
                     _______________________________

                               Memorandum Opinion
                         ______________________________

Before QUINN, C.J., and CAMPBELL and HANCOCK, JJ.

      Sabas Rodriguez (appellant) appeals three judgments revoking his community

supervision. He was originally convicted of forgery and theft via a plea bargain and

received a sentence of two years in a state jail facility. His sentence was suspended, and

he was placed on probation for five years. Subsequently, the State filed two separate

motions to revoke that probation.      The second resulted in its revocation and his
incarceration for two years. Appellant timely noticed his appeal. His appointed counsel

then moved to withdraw, after filing a brief pursuant to Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738,

87 S. Ct. 1396, 18 L. Ed. 2d 493 (1967), and representing that he had searched the record

and found no arguable grounds for reversal. The motion and brief illustrated that appellant

was informed of his rights to review the appellate record and file his own brief. So too did

we inform appellant that any pro se response or brief he cared to file had to be filed by May

31, 2007. To date, appellant has filed no pro se response or brief.

       In compliance with the principles enunciated in Anders, appellate counsel discussed

one potential area for appeal that concerned the sufficiency of the evidence supporting the

trial court’s determination to revoke appellant’s probation. However, counsel explained

how “the overwhelming weight of the evidence does not appear to require reversal.”

       So too did we conduct an independent review of the record to determine whether

there existed reversible error and found none. See Stafford v. State, 813 S.W.2d 503, 511

(Tex. Crim. App. 1991) (requiring us to conduct an independent review). Since no appeal

was taken within 30 days from the date of appellant's guilty plea and original conviction,

we have no jurisdiction over any purported error arising from or prior to the plea hearing.

Manuel v. State, 944 S.W.2d 658, 661-62 (Tex. Crim. App. 1999); see Cooper v. State, 45
S.W.3d 77, 83 (Tex. Crim. App. 2001). Moreover, appellant pled true to more than a

majority of the grounds upon which the State sought to revoke his probation. Finding any

one ground to exist entitled the trial court to grant the State’s motion. Moore v. State, 605
S.W.2d 924, 926 (Tex. Crim. App. 1979). Finally, the punishment levied was within the

range provided by statute.

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        Accordingly, we grant counsel’s motion to withdraw and affirm the judgments of the

trial court.

                                                Brian Quinn
                                                Chief Justice

Do not publish.

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