Court Opinion

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In
The
                                                Court
of Appeals
                        Sixth
Appellate District of Texas at Texarkana
 
                                                ______________________________
 
                                                             No. 06-09-00156-CR
                                                ______________________________
 
 
                              GERALD DEWAYNE BUTLER,
Appellant
 
                                                                V.
 
                                     THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee
 
 
                                                                                                  

 
 
                                       On Appeal from the 188th
Judicial District Court
                                                             Gregg County, Texas
                                                          Trial Court
No. 36304-A
 
                                                        
                                          
 
 
 
                                          Before Morriss, C.J.,
Carter and Moseley, JJ.
                                            Memorandum Opinion by Justice Moseley

                                                     MEMORANDUM 
OPINION
 
            Gerald
DeWayne Butler was convicted of aggravated robbery in four separate
prosecutions, for multiple robberies of different victims, occurring on three
different dates.  Those convictions are
all presently before this Court on appeal. 
A fifth robbery involving a shooting was prosecuted earlier, and that
conviction was appealed to this Court. 
(All five robberies occurred during the span of six weeks.)  Our opinion affirming the conviction on the
fifth robbery issued on November 12, 2009.[1]  By agreement with the State and the trial
judge, issues that were litigated in the first prosecution concerning a pretrial
motion to suppress could also be brought forward as issues in his four current
appeals.  
            In
this case, Butler appeals from his conviction on his plea of guilty pursuant to
a plea bargain agreement that granted him the right of appeal from pretrial
hearings.  He was convicted of aggravated
robbery, with a deadly weapon finding, and sentenced to twenty years’
imprisonment, to run consecutively with his other convictions.  
            Butler
raises three points on appeal wherein he alleges:  (1) the court erred by denying his motion to
suppress evidence; (2) the court erred by not suppressing his confession based
on the violation of his right to exculpatory evidence under Brady[2]; and
(3) the court erred by not suppressing his confession on constitutional grounds
because he was not advised that he was being recorded.  
            Because
the issues raised in each appeal, and the facts underlying each appeal are
identical, for the reasons stated in our opinion dated this day in Butler v.
State, cause number 06-09-00150-CR, we likewise in this appeal affirm the
judgment of the trial court.
 
 
 
                                                                        Bailey
C. Moseley
                                                                        Justice
 
Date Submitted:          July
6, 2010
Date Decided:             July
20, 2010
 
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[1]Butler v. State, 300 S.W.3d 474 (Tex.
App.––Texarkana 2009, pet. ref’d, untimely filed).
 

[2]Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963).