Court Opinion

ID: 2752839
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2014-11-19 08:08:57.736262+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:15:23.113505
License: Public Domain

In The

                               Court of Appeals
                   Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont
                          ____________________
                             NO. 09-13-00582-CR
                          ____________________

                    WILLIAM PAUL SEMIEN, Appellant

                                       V.

                      THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee

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                 On Appeal from the Criminal District Court
                         Jefferson County, Texas
                        Trial Cause No. 13-17919
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                         MEMORANDUM OPINION

      A jury found William Paul Semien guilty of sexual assault as a habitual

felony offender and assessed punishment at fifty-five years of imprisonment.

Semien’s appellate counsel filed a brief that presents counsel’s professional

evaluation of the record and concludes Semien’s appeal is frivolous. See Anders v.

California, 386 U.S. 738 (1967); High v. State, 573 S.W.2d 807 (Tex. Crim. App.

1978). We granted an extension of time for Semien to file a pro se brief, but we

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received no response from Semien. We have determined that this appeal is wholly

frivolous. We have independently examined the appellate record, and we agree that

no arguable issues support an appeal. We find it unnecessary to order appointment

of new counsel to re-brief the appeal. Compare Stafford v. State, 813 S.W.2d 503,

511 (Tex. Crim. App. 1991). We affirm the trial court’s judgment. 1

      AFFIRMED.

                                              ______________________________
                                                    LEANNE JOHNSON
                                                          Justice

Submitted on November 12, 2014
Opinion Delivered November 19, 2014
Do Not Publish

Before Kreger, Horton, and Johnson, JJ.

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       Semien may challenge our decision by filing a petition for discretionary
review. See Tex. R. App. P. 68.
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