Court Opinion

ID: 6338681
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-05-09 07:17:50.112239+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:49:08.148228
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NUMBERS 13-22-00119-CR

                             COURT OF APPEALS

                   THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS

                     CORPUS CHRISTI – EDINBURG
____________________________________________________________

SARA PEUTTUS,                                                                  Appellant,

                                            v.

THE STATE OF TEXAS,                                 Appellee.
____________________________________________________________

             On appeal from the 156th District Court
                     of Bee County, Texas.
____________________________________________________________

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

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

court cause number B-21-2128-0-CR-B. 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 March 24, 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 agreed to a plea bargain and does

not have the right to appeal this case.

       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.

                                                               GINA M. BENAVIDES
                                                               Justice

Do not publish.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

Delivered and filed on the
5th day of May, 2022.

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