Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2023-05-13 06:11:52.030495+00
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Opinion filed May 11, 2023

                                        In The

        Eleventh Court of Appeals
                                    ___________

                               No. 11-23-00063-CR
                                  ___________

                         BRIAN TED RIOS, Appellant
                                           V.
                     THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee

                     On Appeal from the 132nd District Court
                             Scurry County, Texas
                          Trial Court Cause No. 11044

                      MEMORANDUM OPINION
      Brian Ted Rios has filed an untimely pro se notice of appeal from his judgment
of conviction for the offense of aggravated sexual assault. We dismiss the appeal.
      The documents on file in this appeal indicate that Appellant’s sentence was
imposed on October 31, 2022, and that his notice of appeal was received by the clerk
of this court on March 29, 2023, and then filed in the district clerk’s office on April 3,
2023. When the appeal was filed in this court, we notified Appellant by letter that
the notice of appeal appeared to be untimely and that the appeal may be dismissed
for want of jurisdiction. We also notified Appellant that the trial court had certified
that this is a plea-bargain case in which Appellant has no right of appeal. See TEX. R.
APP. P. 25.2(a)(2), (d); see also TEX. CODE CRIM. PROC. ANN. art 44.02 (West ____).
We requested that Appellant respond to our letter and show grounds to continue.
Appellant has not filed a response showing grounds to continue this appeal.
      Pursuant to the Texas Rules of Appellate Procedure, a notice of appeal is due
to be filed either (1) within thirty days after the date that sentence is imposed in open
court or (2) if the defendant timely files a motion for new trial, within ninety days
after the date that sentence is imposed in open court. TEX. R. APP. P. 26.2(a). A
notice of appeal must be in writing and filed with the clerk of the trial court. TEX. R.
APP. P. 25.2(c)(1). The documents on file in this court reflect that Appellant’s notice
of appeal was filed 154 days after his sentence was imposed. The notice of appeal
was therefore untimely.
      Absent a timely filed notice of appeal or the granting of a timely motion for
extension of time, we do not have jurisdiction to entertain this appeal. Slaton v.
State, 981 S.W.2d 208, 210 (Tex. Crim. App. 1998); Olivo v. State, 918 S.W.2d 519,
522–23 (Tex. Crim. App. 1996); Rodarte v. State, 860 S.W.2d 108, 110 (Tex. Crim.
App. 1993). Moreover, the trial court’s certification reflects that this is a plea-
bargain case and that Appellant has no right of appeal. Thus, even if Appellant had
timely perfected an appeal, this appeal would have been prohibited by Rule 25.2 of
the Texas Rules of Appellate Procedure, which provides that an appellate court must
dismiss an appeal without further action when there is no certification showing that
the defendant has the right of appeal. TEX. R. APP. P. 25.2(d); Chavez v. State, 183
S.W.3d 675, 680 (Tex. Crim. App. 2006); see Dears v. State, 154 S.W.3d 610, 613–
14 (Tex. Crim. App. 2005).

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      We dismiss this appeal for want of jurisdiction.

                                                   PER CURIAM

May 11, 2023
Do not publish. See TEX. R. APP. P. 47.2(b).
Panel consists of: Bailey, C.J.,
Trotter, J., and Williams, J.

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