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TEXAS COURT OF APPEALS, THIRD DISTRICT, AT AUSTIN

NO. 03-02-00169-CR

Denice Evonne Villanueva, Appellant

v.

The State of Texas, Appellee

FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF DENTON COUNTY, 362ND JUDICIAL DISTRICT

NO. F-2000-1094-D, HONORABLE BRUCE MCFARLING, JUDGE PRESIDING

Appellant Denice Evonne Villanueva was placed on deferred adjudication community
supervision after pleading guilty to aggravated assault.  See Tex. Pen. Code Ann. § 22.02 (West
1994).  On the State's motion, the district court later revoked supervision and adjudicated appellant
guilty.  The court assessed punishment at sixteen years' imprisonment.  In three points of error,
appellant contends the court "erred in sentencing Appellant to a term of imprisonment due to a
violation of a condition of community supervision" because:  (1) she was not shown to be the person
placed on community supervision in this cause; (2) the evidence was insufficient to prove the
probationary violation found by the court; and (3) the evidence used to prove the violation was
unlawfully seized.

Upon the filing of a motion to proceed to adjudication, "[t]he defendant is entitled
to a hearing limited to the determination by the court of whether it proceeds with an adjudication of
guilt on the original charge.  No appeal may be taken from this determination."  Tex. Code Crim.
Proc. Ann. art. 42.12, § 5(b) (West Supp. 2002).  Under the express terms of the statute, a defendant
whose deferred adjudication probation has been revoked and who has been adjudicated guilty may
not raise on appeal any claim of error in the adjudication process, even if the error is of constitutional
dimension.  Connolly v. State, 983 S.W.2d 738, 741 (Tex. Crim. App. 1999); Phynes v. State, 828
S.W.2d 1, 2 (Tex. Crim. App. 1992); Williams v. State, 592 S.W.2d 931, 932-33 (Tex. Crim. App.
1979).  After adjudication, all proceedings, including assessment of punishment and sentencing,
continue as if adjudication had not been deferred.  Art. 42.12, § 5(b).  A defendant may appeal issues
arising after adjudication.  Williams, 592 S.W.2d at 932.
Despite the wording of her points of error, the errors appellant asserts do not relate
to the punishment determination or sentencing.  Rather, each error challenges the underlying decision
to proceed to adjudication.  Because the alleged errors are not appealable, we must dismiss the
appeal for want of jurisdiction.
The appeal is dismissed.  

  
				Bea Ann Smith, Justice
Before Justices Kidd, B. A. Smith and Yeakel
Dismissed for Want of Jurisdiction
Filed:   October 17, 2002
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