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AFFIRMED; Opinion Filed April 28, 2017.

                                              In The
                                Court of Appeals
                         Fifth District of Texas at Dallas
                                      No. 05-16-00201-CR
                                      No. 05-16-00202-CR
                                      No. 05-16-00203-CR
                                      No. 05-16-00204-CR

                            ROBERT TYRONE JONES, Appellant
                                         V.
                             THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee

                      On Appeal from the 196th Judicial District Court
                                    Hunt County, Texas
                     Trial Court Cause Nos. 30314, 30315, 30316 & 30897

                             MEMORANDUM OPINION
                          Before Justices Bridges, Evans, and Schenck
                                   Opinion by Justice Evans

       Robert Tyrone Jones appeals his convictions for manufacturing or delivery of a

controlled substance and unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon. The jury sentenced

appellant to forty years’ imprisonment in the drug case, and ten years’ imprisonment in each of

the three firearm cases. In three issues, appellant claims that the trial court erred in denying his

motion to suppress evidence, by failing to submit a jury instruction under article 38.23 of the

Code of Criminal Procedure, and by granting the State’s motion in limine limiting defense

counsel’s closing argument. We affirm.
                                        BACKGROUND

       On January 13, 2015, Officer Hamilton of the Greenville Police Department was on

routine patrol and noticed a vehicle stopped at the end of the entrance driveway leading to the

parking lot of an apartment complex with its reverse and brake lights on. Due to the hour of the

morning, Officer Hamilton did not stop because he thought that the occupant of the vehicle

might be picking someone up or getting ready to head off for work. Thirty minutes later, Officer

Hamilton came back through the area and saw that the vehicle was sitting in the same exact spot

with the reverse and brake lights still on. He decided to make contact with the vehicle to do a

welfare check. The video of Officer Hamilton’s contact with appellant’s vehicle was admitted

into evidence and shows that when the officer pulled his police car behind the vehicle, there was

nothing blocking appellant’s vehicle which would have prevented him from pulling forward or

turning left or right into the parking area. Before approaching the vehicle, Officer Hamilton

called in the license plate number to dispatch to check for anything outstanding on the vehicle;

nothing came back. When he walked up to the vehicle and looked in the window, he saw

appellant asleep in the driver’s seat. Officer Hamilton knocked on the window numerous times

before appellant woke up. Once he began talking to appellant, he suspected that appellant might

be intoxicated due to his slurred speech and red and glassy eyes. The officer did not smell any

alcohol but did smell marijuana and asked appellant to exit the vehicle. After appellant refused

to exit the vehicle, Officer Hamilton called other officers to assist him. One of the officers saw a

loaded gun underneath appellant’s leg while they were removing appellant from the vehicle.

Two guns and several knives were found on appellant’s person, along with a black case

containing methamphetamine, marijuana, and two Xanax pills. A chrome weight, digital scales,

unused Ziploc baggies, and a case with several rounds of ammunition and a gun magazine were

found in appellant’s vehicle.

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                                           ANALYSIS

I. Motion to Suppress

       In appellant’s first issue, he contends that the trial court erred in denying his motion to

suppress. Appellant argues that the detention was not justified under the community caretaking

doctrine. The State first argues that appellant has waived error because his claim on appeal does

not comport with the arguments he raised at trial. We disagree.

       The pretrial motion to suppress filed by appellant was carried along with trial and was

heard midway after the officers involved in the detention and arrest testified and the State sought

to admit into evidence a handgun and two magazines which were retrieved from the seat of the

vehicle. During the hearing, defense counsel made several arguments, including the argument

that the illegal detention began when the officer approached the vehicle and knocked on the

window since the officer had not observed any criminal offense. In the alternative, he argued that

the investigative detention began when the officer began his inquiry as to why appellant was

there, stating, “He didn’t walk up and say, hey, buddy, are you okay? It was, what are you

doing; why are you there?” The State argued that the officer had the right to approach the

standing vehicle; that after he saw somebody asleep with the reverse and brake lights on, he had

a reason to make a community welfare stop; and that once the officer spoke with appellant and

smelled marijuana in the vehicle, reasonable suspicion was established to detain him for

intoxication. After hearing argument, the trial court denied the motion, and made the following

findings:

                All right. Based on – based on the evidence that I've heard so far and
       particularly focusing -- I want to be clear -- only on the testimony of Officer
       Hamilton -- I think everybody else's came after the point where we all agree that
       an investigative detention had begun, regardless of where we think that particular
       line falls. So focusing only on Officer Hamilton's, the Court is going to deny the
       Motion to Suppress.

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               And I want to state my reasons for the record. I believe Officer Hamilton
       had reason to approach the vehicle and to determine the condition of the person
       inside, determining whether they needed assistance, based on his testimony that
       he observed the vehicle on two separate occasions approximately 30 minutes
       apart in the same state. The Court particularly notes that he testified that on both
       occasions he observed the car with its backup lights or reverse lights on, which
       was an unusual circumstance that drew his attention to the vehicle and caused him
       to approach it in the first place.

               Once he began to talk to the defendant, Mr. Hamilton testified that he
       found the defendant's speech to be slurred, his eyes to be red, his eyes to be
       glassy, and that he believed he smelled the odor of marijuana. And on that basis I
       believe that he had sufficient probable cause or reasonable suspicion to believe
       that that particular defendant had been or soon would be engaged in criminal
       activity or was then engaged in criminal activity. I believe that was sufficient.

               So on that basis, and considering the standard that's required of an officer
       that a reasonable -- reasonably-cautious person would have believed that the
       action they took was appropriate under the circumstances, the Court is going to
       deny the Motion to Suppress. I find that there's more than a mere hunch or
       suspicion by the time the investigative detention began. Again, on that basis the
       Court is going to deny the Motion to Suppress.

       Error preservation is not an inflexible concept. Thomas v. State, 408 S.W.3d 877, 884

(Tex. Crim. App. 2013). “[T]here are no technical considerations or form of words to be used.

Straightforward communication in plain English will always suffice.” Lankston v. State, 827
S.W.2d 907, 909 (Tex. Crim. App. 1992). A party need not state his objection with specificity in

order to preserve error so long as the record otherwise makes it clear that both the trial court and

the opposing party understood the legal basis. Thomas, 408 S.W.3d at 884–885. Based on the

arguments made by the State, and the findings made by the trial court, the record is clear that

both the trial court and the State understood that appellant’s objection included an argument

against the applicability of the community caretaking doctrine.

       We now turn to appellant’s claim that the detention was not justified under the

community caretaking doctrine. A trial court's ruling on a motion to suppress is reviewed for an

abuse of discretion. Lujan v. State, 331 S.W.3d 768, 771 (Tex. Crim. App. 2011) (per curiam). In

conducting this review, appellate courts employ a bifurcated standard. Amador v. State, 221
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S.W.3d 666, 673 (Tex. Crim. App. 2007). We give almost total deference to a trial court's

rulings on questions of historical fact and mixed questions of law and fact that turn on an

evaluation of credibility and demeanor, but we review de novo mixed questions of law and fact

that do not turn on credibility and demeanor. Id.

       We view the evidence in the light most favorable to the trial court's ruling, regardless of

whether the trial court granted or denied the motion to suppress. State v. Woodard, 341 S.W.3d
404, 410 (Tex. Crim. App. 2011). Therefore, we afford the prevailing party the strongest

legitimate view of the evidence and all reasonable inferences that may be drawn from the

evidence. Id. When, as in this case, the trial court makes findings of fact, we determine whether

the evidence, when viewed in the light most favorable to the court's ruling, supports those

findings. Abney v. State, 394 S.W.3d 542, 548 (Tex. Crim. App. 2013).

       Local police officers frequently engage in “community caretaking functions,” totally

divorced from the detection, investigation, and acquisition of evidence relating to the violation of

a criminal statute. Byram v. State, No. PD-1480-15, 2017 WL 359791, at *3 (Tex. Crim. App.

Jan. 25, 2017) (citing Cady v. Dombrowski, 413 U.S. 433, 441 (1973)). “As part of his duty to

‘serve and protect,’ a police officer may stop and assist an individual whom a reasonable

person—given the totality of the circumstances—would believe is in need of help.” Id. (quoting

Wright v. State, 7 S.W.3d 148, 151 (Tex. Crim. App. 1999)). A police officer may not properly

invoke his community caretaking function if he is primarily motivated by a non–community

caretaking purpose.” Corbin v. State, 85 S.W.3d 272, 276–277 (Tex. Crim. App. 2002).

Determining whether an officer may properly invoke his community-caretaking function is “a

two-step inquiry: (1) whether the officer was primarily motivated by a community-caretaking

purpose; and (2) whether the officer's belief that the individual needed help was reasonable.”

Gonzales v. State, 369 S.W.3d 851, 854–55 (Tex. Crim. App. 2012).

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       Assuming without deciding, that appellant was seized under the Fourth Amendment

when Officer Hamilton required appellant to roll down his window and started questioning him,

the inquiry as to Officer Hamilton’s motivation for the contact is a factual question that turns on

the credibility and demeanor of the officer when he testified at trial. Officer Hamilton testified

that he decided to make contact with the vehicle to do a welfare check after he initially noticed

the vehicle stopped in the entrance driveway with its reverse and brake lights on, and thirty

minutes later, saw the vehicle sitting in the same exact spot with the reverse and brake lights still

on. He testified that when he walked up to the vehicle and looked in the window, he saw

appellant asleep in the driver’s seat. Further, the video of Officer Hamilton’s contact with

appellant’s vehicle was admitted into evidence and shows that when the officer pulled his police

car behind the vehicle the reverse and brake lights were on. The trial court found Officer

Hamilton to be credible and based on his testimony, concluded that his primary motivation was

to assist the driver of the vehicle. We defer to this finding. Gonzales, 369 S.W.3d at 855 (“We

see no reason to second-guess the trial court’s determination of an issue that is supported by the

record and depends so much on credibility and demeanor.”).

       We now consider whether Officer Hamilton’s belief appellant needed assistance was

reasonable. The reasonableness of Officer Hamilton’s belief is a mixed question of law and fact.

Byram, 2017 WL 359791, at *4. We defer to the trial court’s determination of the facts

constituting the circumstances facing the officer prior to the seizure. We review de novo the

question of whether a reasonable person under those circumstances would believe that appellant

was in need of help. Id.

       In determining whether an officer’s belief that an individual needs help is reasonable, we

consider a non-exclusive list of relevant factors: (1) the nature and level of distress exhibited by

the individual; (2) the location of the individual; (3) whether or not the individual was alone

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and/or had access to assistance independent of that offered by the officer; and (4) to what extent

the individual—if not assisted—presented a danger to herself or others. Byram, 2017 WL
359791, at *4 (citing Wright, 7 S.W.3d at 152). Reasonableness remains the ultimate standard.

“These ‘Wright factors’ are merely considerations that may be useful for determining what is

reasonable under the totality of the circumstances, and are not ‘the elements of reasonableness.”

Id. (quoting Gonzales, 369 S.W.3d at 855).

       Appellant argues that appellant exhibited no distress because “[t]he fact that an individual

is sitting in their running car early in the morning on a very cold day for approximately 30

minutes, even if the reverse lights were on . . . is such a commonplace thing that no one else in

the apartment complex felt the need to intervene or to call a report a suspicious vehicle.”

Appellant further asserts, “[a] reasonable interpretation would be that the driver was playing on

their phone, or putting on their make-up, or waiting for their wife who was still in the apartment,

or engaging in other activities to prepare for the day while their vehicle warmed up.” We

disagree with appellant that he did not exhibit a level of distress for Officer Hamilton to

reasonably believe he needed assistance.

       “A particular level of exhibited distress may be seen as more or less serious depending on

the presence or absence of the remaining three factors. Gonzales, 369 S.W.3d at 855 (quoting

Corbin, 85 S.W.3d at 277). Further, the community-caretaking doctrine is not the same as the

emergency aid doctrine; the distress exhibited by the individual need not suggest harm dire

enough to trigger the emergency aid doctrine. Byram, 2017 WL 359791, at *4 (citing Laney, 117
S.W.3d 854, 861 (Tex. Crim. App. 2003)).

       In this case, Officer Hamilton observed appellant’s vehicle stopped with its reverse and

brake lights on. Thirty minutes later, he saw the same vehicle sitting in the same exact spot with

the reverse and brake lights still on. The location of the vehicle was the end of the entrance

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driveway leading to the parking lot of an apartment complex. The driveway to the apartment

complex was located off of a major thoroughfare in the City of Greenville.1 When the officer

pulled his patrol car behind the vehicle, there was no attempt by the occupant of the vehicle to

take it out of reverse or move the vehicle. Further, there was nothing blocking the vehicle which

would have prevented the driver from pulling forward or turning left or right into the parking

area.     When Officer Hamilton approached the vehicle and looked in the window, he saw

appellant asleep in the driver’s seat. There were no other people in the vehicle. There was no

evidence appellant had access to a cell phone or other means to call for assistance. Although

appellant argues that the officer was not the only source of assistance because appellant was

“only steps away from multiple doors with multiple different opportunities to obtain aid, if such

were needed.” This argument assumes that the people going in and out of the apartment

complex made the same observations as Officer Hamilton did. There is no evidence that anyone

in the apartment complex noticed that there was a vehicle in reverse gear sitting in the same spot

for a lengthy period of time, that anyone observed appellant sleeping in the driver’s seat while

the vehicle was in reverse gear, or that anyone from the apartment complex called 911 to request

assistance or report a suspicious vehicle. Finally, given the location of the vehicle and the fact

that appellant was asleep in the driver’s seat with the vehicle in reverse, appellant was not only a

danger to himself but a danger to others. Had appellant taken his foot off the brake while he sat

there sleeping, the vehicle could have backed out into the street and hit another vehicle driving

by.

          We conclude Officer Hamilton reasonably exercised his community caretaking function,

because, under the totality of the circumstances, it was reasonable for him to believe appellant

      1
      Officer Hamilton testified that he was driving on Joe Ramsey Boulevard when he spotted the vehicle in the
driveway.

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needed help. The trial court properly denied the motion to suppress. We overrule appellant’s

first issue.

II. Article 38.23 Jury Charge.

        In appellant’s second issue, he contends that the trial court erred by failing to submit a

jury instruction pursuant to article 38.23 of the Code of Criminal Procedure. Article 38.23

provides that evidence obtained in violation of Texas or federal laws or constitutions is

inadmissible in a criminal prosecution. If there is a fact issue regarding whether the police

acquired the evidence in violation of the laws or constitutions, the jury must be instructed to

resolve the factual dispute and then disregard any evidence it decides was improperly obtained.

TEX. CODE CRIM. PROC. ANN. art. 38.23(a) (West 2005); Morehead v. State, 746 S.W.2d 830,

839 (Tex. Crim. App. 1988). To be entitled to an article 38.23 instruction, appellant must show

that (1) an issue of historical fact was raised in front of the jury; (2) the fact was contested by

affirmative evidence at trial; and (3) the fact is material to the constitutional or statutory violation

that the defendant has identified as rendering the particular evidence inadmissible. Robinson v.

State, 377 S.W.3d 712, 719 (Tex. Crim. App. 2012) (citing Madden v. State, 242 S.W.3d 504,

510 (Tex. Crim. App. 2007)). Questions on cross-examination cannot, by themselves, raise a

disputed fact issue. Madden, 242 S.W.3d at 515.

        Appellant contends that whether or not appellant’s reverse lights were on when his

vehicle was observed by Officer Hamilton was a fact issue that was contested at trial. Appellant

argues that the fact issue was raised during counsel’s cross-examination of Officer Hamilton

when he questioned the officer about his police report and “Officer Hamilton admitted he did not

put anything about the reverse lights being on in his police report.” Appellate counsel’s

statement regarding Officer Hamilton’s admission during trial counsel’s cross-examination is

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misleading. The only cross-examination pertaining to the issue of whether the officer saw the

reverse lights on is as follows:

               Q. All right. Well, I want to ask you about one other thing. You said that
       you thought you saw the reverse or back-up lights on with regard to his vehicle; is
       that correct?

               A. Yes, sir.

              Q. Okay. And are you aware of the fact, from reading your narrative, that
       at no point do you say anything with respect – in your report do you say anything
       with respect to putting the car into neutral or putting the car into park or turning
       off the ignition of the car or taking any action to change the status, that you
       believed, from the car being in reverse?

               A. Yes, sir, I am.

               Q. And it’s correct there’s nothing in there about any of that, is there?

               A. No, sir, it’s not.

               Q. Okay. And –

                       THE COURT: I’m sorry, Officer. It’s not in there, or it’s not
       correct?

                       THE WITNESS: It’s not in the report.
               ....

               Q. Okay. Would – if a person – let’s assume, just a hypothetical, that a
       person is asleep behind the wheel of a vehicle, and the car is actually engaged in
       gear in reverse. Let’s assume that. Okay.
               ....

               All right. That – if that hypothetical was correct, wouldn’t it be a potential
       safety issue for the car to be in gear?

               A. For it to be in gear?

               Q. Yes, sir, if a person was asleep?

               A. For it not to be in park, yes.

               Q. It would be a safety issue for the car to be in park?

               A. It would need to be in park.

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               Q. All right. But you’ve already acknowledged that you didn’t express
       anywhere in your narrative the – what would have had to have been a correction
       of that hazardous situation. You just acknowledged it would be hazardous for a
       person to be asleep and have the car in reverse. But there’s nothing corrective at
       all in your report, as you just stated, right?

               A. Yes, sir.

       There is nothing in the above exchange that constitutes an admission by Officer Hamilton

that his police report failed to indicate that the reverse lights were on. The questioning focused

solely on whether there was anything in the report about the officer taking corrective action to

take the vehicle out of reverse gear. Even if this exchange can somehow be construed as an

admission from Officer Hamilton that his written report did not include the fact that appellant’s

vehicle had the reverse lights on, he never admitted that he was wrong about whether the reverse

lights were on when he observed appellant’s vehicle. Madden, 242 S.W.3d at 515. Further, the

jury saw the video recording of Officer Hamilton’s contact with appellant’s vehicle which

clearly showed the fact that the reverse lights of the vehicle were on when Officer Hamilton

pulled up behind it. Appellant’s second issue is overruled.

III. Jury Argument.

       In appellant’s third issue, he contends that the trial court erred in granting the

prosecutor’s motion in limine regarding closing argument which prohibited him from arguing

that the evidence was obtained illegally.

       “Preservation of error is a systemic requirement on appeal.” Ford v. State, 305 S.W.3d
530, 532 (Tex. Crim. App. 2009) (footnote omitted). If an issue has not been preserved for

appeal, we should not address it. Id. Rule 33.1(a) of the Texas Rules of Appellate Procedure

provides that a complaint is not preserved for appeal unless it was made to the trial court “by a

timely request, objection or motion” that “stated the grounds for the ruling that the complaining

party sought from the trial court with sufficient specificity to make the trial court aware of the

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complaint, unless the specific grounds were apparent from the context.” TEX. R. APP. P. 33.1.

“The two main purposes of requiring a specific objection are to inform the trial judge of the basis

of the objection so that he has an opportunity to rule on it and to allow opposing counsel to

remedy the error.” Clark v. State, 365 S.W.3d 333, 339 (Tex. Crim. App. 2012). In addition, the

record must show that the trial court ruled on the complaint or refused a complaining party's

request for a ruling. See TEX. R. APP. P. 33.1. We are not hyper-technical in examination of

whether error was preserved, but a complaint on appeal must comport with the complaint made

at trial. Bekendam v. State, 441 S.W.3d 295, 300 (Tex. Crim. App. 2014).

       In this case, after the trial court denied appellant’s request for a 38.23 instruction in the

jury charge, the prosecutor made an oral motion in limine that defense counsel be prevented from

arguing to the jury an issue about an illegal stop. When asked to respond, counsel stated that he

believed everything that is in evidence is subject to being discussed in closing argument and that

he should be able to discuss the sequence of events that occurred. Counsel also argued that he

should be allowed to ask the jury to find his client not guilty because he had a duty to do so. The

trial court agreed that counsel could discuss the facts that led up to the arrest and could ask the

jury to find his client not guilty, and clarified it’s ruling during the following exchange:

                THE COURT: What I’m avoiding – what I’m trying to avoid is to say
       that because there wasn’t sufficient evidence for the officer – sufficient cause for
       the officer to engage your client, only for that reason. To ask them to find him
       not guilty is fine. I just don’t want you make the argument that they should find
       him not guilty because there’s been a violation of the United States Constitution
       or the Constitution of the State of Texas or the laws of either. That’s what I’m
       instructing you not to do, to be more clear, I guess, since I’ve made a decision on
       that, a legal decision. And that issue is not before the jury for decision.

               Does that make sense?

               MR. PARIS: It does make sense, and I certainly can follow that.

               THE COURT: Okay.

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               MR. PARIS: But I assume that does not preclude me from stating: All of
        the evidence is before you, ladies and gentlemen. You have heard it all. And
        when you deliberate, I’m asking that you return a verdict of not guilty.

               THE COURT: No. Absolutely not. You’re welcome to say that,
        absolutely. The only thing I don’t want you to do is to make a direct correlation
        between the finding of guilt or not guilty and violation of the Constitution.
        Because, again I’ve taken that issue away from the jury. But other than that,
        you’re absolutely entitled to argue that, based on the facts of this case, you should
        find my client not guilty. You’re absolutely entitled to argue that, yes, sir.

                 MR. PARIS: All right.

        Counsel never objected to the trial court’s ruling on the motion in limine. Even if

counsel’s discussion with the trial court could be construed as a definitive ruling on the state’s

motion,2 on appeal, appellant argues that the trial court’s ruling effectively denied him his right

to counsel because counsel was prevented from making arguments essential to appellant’s

defense. We conclude that appellant’s complaint on appeal was not preserved for appellate

review because it does not comport with his arguments at trial.

        Further, even if the error had been properly preserved for review, we find no merit in

appellant’s argument. It is well-settled that both the State and the defense are entitled to discuss

facts admitted into evidence and to give reasonable explanations of the law, as long as the

examples given by counsel do not constitute a statement of law contrary to that in the charge.

Morehead, 746 S.W.2d at 841. But no party has a right to bring before the jury a matter of either

law or fact for the purpose of causing them to rebel against the law and refuse to follow it. Id.

(citing Toone v. State, 161 S.W.2d 90, 92 (1942)); Eckert v. State, 672 S.W.2d 600, 603 (Tex.

App.—Austin 1984, pet. ref'd)). Nor can the State or defendant make a statement of what

    2
        A trial judge’s grant or denial of a motion in limine normally does not preserve error. Harnett v. State, 38
S.W.3d 650, 655 (Tex. Crim. App. 2000). It is a preliminary ruling only and subject to the trial court’s
reconsideration. Norman v. State, 523 S.W.2d 669, 671 (Tex. Crim. App. 1975). Usually, the mere granting of a
motion in limine does not make it possible for the reviewing court to know what, if any, specific matters the trial
court excluded for presentation to the jury. Id. However, in this case, the record shows that counsel sought and
obtained a definitive ruling on what evidence and defensive theories he was specifically prohibited from presenting
to the jury during his closing argument. Geuder v. State, 115 S.W.3d 11, 15–16 (Tex. Crim. App. 2003).

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purports to be the law when same is not contained in the court's charge. Id. (citing Cook v. State,

540 S.W.2d 708, 710 (Tex. Crim. App. 1976). We conclude that the trial court properly

prevented this line of argument. We overrule appellant’s third issue.

                                        CONCLUSION

       We affirm the trial court’s judgment.

                                                   /David W. Evans/
                                                   DAVID EVANS
                                                   JUSTICE

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                               Court of Appeals
                        Fifth District of Texas at Dallas
                                      JUDGMENT

ROBERT TYRONE JONES, Appellant                      On Appeal from the 196th Judicial District
                                                    Court, Hunt County, Texas
No. 05-16-00201-CR         V.                       Trial Court Cause No. 30314.
                                                    Opinion delivered by Justice Evans, Justices
THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee                        Bridges and Schenck participating.

       Based on the Court’s opinion of this date, the judgment of the trial court is AFFIRMED.

Judgment entered this 28th day of April, 2017.

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                               Court of Appeals
                        Fifth District of Texas at Dallas
                                      JUDGMENT

ROBERT TYRONE JONES, Appellant                      On Appeal from the 196th Judicial District
                                                    Court, Hunt County, Texas
No. 05-16-00202-CR         V.                       Trial Court Cause No. 30315.
                                                    Opinion delivered by Justice Evans, Justices
THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee                        Bridges and Schenck participating.

       Based on the Court’s opinion of this date, the judgment of the trial court is AFFIRMED.

Judgment entered this 28th day of April, 2017.

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                               Court of Appeals
                        Fifth District of Texas at Dallas
                                      JUDGMENT

ROBERT TYRONE JONES, Appellant                      On Appeal from the 196th Judicial District
                                                    Court, Hunt County, Texas
No. 05-16-00203-CR         V.                       Trial Court Cause No. 30316.
                                                    Opinion delivered by Justice Evans, Justices
THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee                        Bridges and Schenck participating.

       Based on the Court’s opinion of this date, the judgment of the trial court is AFFIRMED.

Judgment entered this 28th day of April, 2017.

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                               Court of Appeals
                        Fifth District of Texas at Dallas
                                      JUDGMENT

ROBERT TYRONE JONES, Appellant                      On Appeal from the 196th Judicial District
                                                    Court, Hunt County, Texas
No. 05-16-00204-CR         V.                       Trial Court Cause No. 30897.
                                                    Opinion delivered by Justice Evans, Justices
THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee                        Bridges and Schenck participating.

       Based on the Court’s opinion of this date, the judgment of the trial court is AFFIRMED.

Judgment entered this 28th day of April, 2017.

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