Court Opinion

ID: 9770372
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 15:59:51.336544+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:31:16.732611
License: Public Domain

MANSFIELD, J.,
delivered the concurring opinion
in which KELLER, J., joined.
I join the opinion of the Court, affirming the judgment of the Court of Appeals. I write further to express my support for the position expressed by Judge Keller in her concurring opinion in Connolly v. State, 983 S.W.2d 738 (Tex.Crim.App.1999) that the Legislature has not imposed on the State an obligation to exercise “due diligence” in apprehending an individual whose probation it seeks to revoke.
Nowhere in the Code of Criminal Procedure is there set forth any requirement that the State must do certain things or undertake certain actions to execute promptly a warrant for the arrest of a probationer alleged to have violated the conditions of his probation. Whether we should impose such a requirement in the absence of any legislative directive is a question we should not answer unless and until the appropriate case comes before us.