Court Opinion

ID: 4114862
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2017-01-11 15:18:53.570486+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:21:28.927111
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In The

                                Court of Appeals
                    Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont
                           ____________________
                               NO. 09-16-00097-CR
                               NO. 09-16-00098-CR
                               NO. 09-16-00099-CR
                           ____________________

                   FLOYD PATRICK WINTERS, Appellant

                                         V.

                       THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee

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                   On Appeal from the 163rd District Court
                           Orange County, Texas
            Trial Cause Nos. B150410-R, B150413-R & B150416-R
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                          MEMORANDUM OPINION

      In open pleas, Floyd Patrick Winters (Winters) pleaded guilty in two cases to

felony possession of a controlled substance (enhanced to second-degree felonies

based on a prior felony conviction), and in one case to felony possession of

marijuana. The trial court accepted Winters’s guilty pleas and found him guilty in

all three cases. The trial court sentenced Winters to ten years in prison for each of

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the felony of a controlled substance charges and two years in state jail for the

felony possession of marijuana charge, with the sentences to be served

concurrently.

      Winters’s appellate counsel filed a brief in all three proceedings that presents

counsel’s professional evaluation of the records and concludes that the appeals are

frivolous. See Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738 (1967); High v. State, 573
S.W.2d 807 (Tex. Crim. App. 1978). On October 7, 2016, we granted an extension

of time for Winters to file pro se briefs. We received no response from Winters.

We have independently reviewed the appellate records and we agree with

counsel’s conclusion that no arguable issues support the appeals. Therefore, we

find it unnecessary to order appointment of new counsel to re-brief the appeals. Cf.

Stafford v. State, 813 S.W.2d 503, 511 (Tex. Crim. App. 1991). We affirm the trial

court’s judgments.1

      AFFIRMED.

                                                    _________________________
                                                       LEANNE JOHNSON
                                                             Justice

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        Winters may challenge our decision in these cases by filing a petition for
discretionary review. See Tex. R. App. P. 68.
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Submitted on January 9, 2017
Opinion Delivered January 11, 2017
Do Not Publish

Before McKeithen, C.J., Kreger and Johnson, JJ.

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