Court Opinion

ID: 4420026
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2019-07-25 14:53:48.908879+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:52:59.718860
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NUMBER 13-19-00285-CR

                            COURT OF APPEALS

                  THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS

                     CORPUS CHRISTI - EDINBURG

ALLEN BYRD,                                                                  Appellant,

                                           v.

THE STATE OF TEXAS,                                                           Appellee.

                   On appeal from the 214th District Court
                         of Nueces County, Texas.

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

      Appellant, Allen Byrd, attempts to appeal his conviction for failure to register as a

sex offender. The trial court has certified that this “is a plea-bargain case, and the

defendant has NO right of appeal,” and “the defendant has waived the right of appeal.”

See TEX. R. APP. P. 25.2(a)(2).
       On June 14, 2019, this Court notified appellant’s counsel of the trial court’s

certification 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 certification.

       On July 8, 2019, counsel filed a letter brief with this Court. Counsel’s response

does not establish that the certification currently on file with this Court is 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, this appeal is

DISMISSED.

                                                                  GINA M. BENAVIDES,
                                                                  Justice

Do not publish.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

Delivered and filed the
25th day of August, 2019.

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