Court Opinion

ID: 9892261
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-10-22 15:12:03.507663+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:01:48.434312
License: Public Domain

IN THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS
                           OF TEXAS
                                          NO. WR-95,058-01

                        EX PARTE LASHA EILEEN SPACEK, Applicant

                 ON APPLICATION FOR A WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS
              CAUSE NO. CR-19-1300-D-WHC IN THE 428TH DISTRICT COURT
                                FROM HAYS COUNTY

          KELLER, P.J., filed a dissenting opinion in which YEARY, KEEL and SLAUGHTER, JJ.,
joined.

                                      DISSENTING OPINION

          The trial court stacked Applicant’s sentences. She claims that her plea was involuntary

because she would have accepted the State’s plea offer if she had known her sentences could be

stacked. Trial counsel acknowledges that he told Applicant the sentences would run concurrently,

and he says she would have accepted the plea offer if he had correctly advised her. The Court grants

Applicant a new trial.

          But after Applicant filed this writ application, the trial court entered a nunc pro tunc order

ordering that the sentences run concurrently. It appears that Applicant has received the sentence she
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thought she would receive, and her involuntary-plea claim now must fail. I would dismiss the

application as moot.

       I respectfully dissent.

Delivered: October 18, 2023
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