Court Opinion

ID: 9646970
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 13:19:03.273617+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:11:44.368371
License: Public Domain

ROBERTS, Judge,
concurring.
I concur with the opinions of Judges Dally and Clinton. I write in response to the *838dissenting opinion, so that readers may not be led astray by two of its assertions.
The dissenting opinion asserts that an allegation that a drug is prohibited to be dispensed without a prescription is equivalent in meaning to an allegation that a drug bears the federal legend. This is incorrect, for some drugs which do not bear the federal legend are prohibited by our state law from being dispensed without a prescription. See Sections 2.07(b)(1) & (2) and 3.08(d) of the Texas Controlled Substances Act (V.T.R.C.S.A., Article 4476-15); 21 Code of Federal Regulations, Section 329.-20(a)(3) & (4); 21 United States Code, Section 353(b)(3).
A reader also might assume that the certification of Jerome A. Halperin, discussed in the dissenting opinion, is evidence in the record of this case. It is not. A dissenting judge procured this affidavit after the ha-beas corpus transcript had been transmitted to this Court. The State did not offer any proof that sinequan bears the federal legend, and this fact (if it is true) does not appear in the record or in the law. The responsibility for fact-finding in post-conviction habeas corpus cases is cast on the convicting court because original proceedings in this Court are virtually ineffective for providing such fact-finding proceedings. Ex parte Young, 418 S.W.2d 824, 826 (Tex.Cr.App.1967). We permit original proceedings only in extraordinary, rare cases. Ex parte Sheppard, 548 S.W.2d 414 (Tex.Cr.App.1977); Ex parte Norvell, 528 S.W.2d 129 (Tex.Cr.App.1975). The dissent has failed to persuade the court that the need to remedy the perceived failings of the prosecution is sufficient justification for this extraordinary attempt to conduct a fact-finding proceeding in this Court. The court was correct in rejecting this tactic, and I wish to make a public record of that.
PHILLIPS, J., joins in this opinion.