Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2022-06-27 00:14:39.652313+00
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NUMBERS 13-22-00212-CR

                             COURT OF APPEALS

                   THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS

                     CORPUS CHRISTI – EDINBURG
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CASEY RAINES,                                                                  Appellant,

                                            v.

THE STATE OF TEXAS,                                 Appellee.
____________________________________________________________

             On appeal from the 347th District Court
                   of Nueces County, Texas.
____________________________________________________________

                         MEMORANDUM OPINION
  Before Chief Justice Contreras and Justices Longoria and Tijerina
          Memorandum Opinion by Chief Justice Contreras

      Appellant filed a notice of appeal attempting to appeal an order entered in trial

court cause number 21FC-4726-H. We dismiss the appeal for want of jurisdiction.

      Upon review of the documents filed, the trial court has certified that this “is a plea-

bargain case, and the defendant has NO right of appeal” without permission of the Court.

See TEX. R. APP. P. 25.2(a)(2). On May 20, 2022, the Court ordered appellant’s counsel
to review the record and determine whether appellant had a right to appeal. In response,

appellant’s counsel filed a letter indicating appellant plead guilty and waived his right to

appeal. Appellant’s counsel also indicated appellant was provided admonishments before

signing the “appeal certification” and entering the plea, and no matters were raised by

written motion filed prior to the plea. Finally, appellant’s counsel indicated that, based on

communications with appellant, he did not actually want to appeal his plea.

       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, this appeal is

dismissed for want of jurisdiction.

                                                                DORI CONTRERAS
                                                                Chief Justice

Do not publish.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

Delivered and filed on the
23rd day of June, 2022.

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