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02-11-374-CR

COURT OF APPEALS
SECOND DISTRICT OF TEXAS
FORT WORTH
 

 
 
NO. 02-11-00374-CR
 
 

Dewey Charles Behrens

 

APPELLANT

 
V.
 

THE
  STATE OF TEXAS

 

STATE

 
 
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FROM Criminal
District Court No. 1 OF Tarrant COUNTY
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MEMORANDUM
OPINION[1]
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          Appellant
Dewey Charles Behrens filed a notice of appeal from the trial court’s pretrial
order denying his special plea of double jeopardy.  The State filed a motion to
dismiss the appeal, arguing that we lack jurisdiction.  We do not have
jurisdiction over an interlocutory appeal from the denial of a special plea of
double jeopardy.  Ex parte Apolinar, 820 S.W.2d 792, 793–94 (Tex.
Crim. App. 1991); White v. State, No. 02-11-00015-CR, 2011 WL 582665, at
*1 (Tex. App.—Fort Worth Feb. 17, 2011, no pet.) (mem. op., not designated for
publication) (“While a criminal defendant may file a special plea in order to
assert a claim of former jeopardy, . . . there is no
statutory provision which grants us jurisdiction to review the denial of a
special plea before a final judgment has been rendered.”).  Accordingly, we grant
the State’s motion to dismiss and dismiss this appeal for want of
jurisdiction.  See Tex. R. App. P. 43.2(f).
 
 
PER CURIAM
 
PANEL: 
MEIER
J.; LIVINGSTON, C.J.; and GABRIEL, J.
 
DO
NOT PUBLISH
Tex.
R. App. P. 47.2(b)
 
DELIVERED:  March 1, 2012

[1]See Tex. R. App. P. 47.4.