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NUMBERS 13-10-00219-CR AND 13-10-00220-CR

                             COURT OF APPEALS

                   THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS

                      CORPUS CHRISTI - EDINBURG

CHRISTOPHER LEE RUTLEDGE,                                                     Appellant,

                                            v.

THE STATE OF TEXAS,                                                            Appellee.

                     On appeal from the 94th District Court
                          of Nueces County, Texas.

                          MEMORANDUM OPINION
                Before Justices Yañez, Garza, and Benavides
                     Memorandum Opinion Per Curiam

       Appellant, Christopher Lee Rutledge, attempts to appeal two convictions for

aggravated robbery. The trial court has certified in both cases that this Ais a plea-bargain

case, and the defendant has NO right of appeal.@ See TEX. R. APP. P. 25.2(a)(2).
       On April 15, 2010, this Court notified appellant=s counsel of the trial court=s

certifications and ordered counsel to: (1) review the record; (2) determine whether

appellant has a right to appeal; and (3) forward to this Court, by letter, counsel=s findings

as to whether appellant has a right to appeal, or, alternatively, advise this Court as to the

existence of any amended certifications.

       On October 7, 2010, counsel filed a letter brief with this Court.           Counsel=s

response does not establish that the certifications currently on file with this Court are

incorrect or that appellant otherwise has a right to appeal.

       The Texas Rules of Appellate Procedure provide that an appeal must be

dismissed if the trial court=s certification does not show that the defendant has the right of

appeal. TEX. R. APP. P. 25.2(d); see TEX. R. APP. P. 37.1, 44.3, 44.4. Accordingly, these

appeals are DISMISSED.

                                                  PER CURIAM

Do not publish.
TEX. R. APP. P. 47.2(b).

Delivered and filed the
21st day of October, 2010.

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