Court Opinion

ID: 9780911
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-30 08:13:43.087043+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:34:16.697608
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In the
              Court of Appeals
Sixth Appellate District of Texas at Texarkana

                   No. 06-23-00031-CR

     LAUREN MARIE HOPFENSPIRGER, Appellant

                            V.

           THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee

         On Appeal from the 336th District Court
                 Fannin County, Texas
             Trial Court No. CR-22-28318

      Before Stevens, C.J., van Cleef and Rambin, JJ.
      Memorandum Opinion by Chief Justice Stevens
                                     MEMORANDUM OPINION

           Pursuant to an agreement with the State, Lauren Marie Hopfenspirger entered an open

plea of guilty to intentionally or knowingly causing serious injury to a child.1 After a unitary

hearing, the trial court found Hopfenspirger guilty of attempt to intentionally or knowingly cause

serious injury to a child and sentenced her to eighteen years’ imprisonment.                    On appeal,2

Hopfenspirger asserts that, by finding her guilty of the lesser-included offense of attempt to

intentionally or knowingly cause serious injury to a child, the trial court went beyond her

agreement with the State and violated her due process right to withdraw her guilty pleas in this

case, as well as that case.

           Hopfenspirger asserted this same issue in her appeal in cause number 06-23-00029-CR,

and we determined that we lacked jurisdiction over that appeal. For the reasons stated therein,

we likewise conclude that we lack jurisdiction over this appeal.

           We dismiss this appeal for want of jurisdiction.

                                                           Scott E. Stevens
                                                           Chief Justice

Date Submitted:             August 28, 2023
Date Decided:               August 29, 2023

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1
    See TEX. PENAL CODE ANN. § 22.04(e) (Supp.).
2
 In our cause number 06-23-00029-CR, Hopfenspirger appeals her conviction for aggravated assault with a deadly
weapon. In our cause number 06-23-00030-CR, she appeals her conviction for family violence assault by impeding
the normal breathing or circulation of the blood of the person by blocking the complainant’s nose or mouth.
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