Court Opinion

ID: 3112412
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2015-10-16 07:03:55.133421+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:06:34.460606
License: Public Domain

NO. 07-10-0495-CR
 
IN THE COURT OF APPEALS
 
FOR THE SEVENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS
 
AT AMARILLO
 
PANEL A
 
DECEMBER 16, 2010
 
______________________________
 
 
HEATHER M. STEPHENS, APPELLANT
 
V.
 
THE STATE OF TEXAS, APPELLEE
 
_________________________________
 
FROM THE 137TH DISTRICT COURT OF LUBBOCK
COUNTY;
 
NO. 2010-429,099; HONORABLE CECIL G. PURYEAR, JUDGE
 
_______________________________
 
Before CAMPBELL and HANCOCK and PIRTLE, JJ.
ABATEMENT AND REMAND
            According to the limited
documents filed, Appellant was convicted of possession of methamphetamine in an
amount of more than four but less than 200 grams, and punishment was assessed
at five years confinement.[1]  The Trial
Court's Certification of the Defendant's Right to Appeal signed by the
trial court and by Appellant has two boxes checked which contradict each
other.  The option "is not a
plea-bargain case, and the Defendant has the right to appeal" and "is
a plea-bargain case and the Defendant has NO right of appeal" are both
selected.  Thus, the certification is
defective.  See Dears v. State, 154 S.W.3d 610, 614
(Tex.Crim.App. 2005).
Consequently, we abate this appeal and remand this cause to
the trial court for further proceedings. 
Upon remand, the trial court shall utilize whatever means necessary to
secure a proper Trial Court's Certification of Defendant's Right of Appeal in
compliance with Rule 25.2(d).  Once
properly completed and executed, the certification shall be included in a
supplemental clerk's record.  See
Tex. R. App. P. 34.5(a)(12).  The trial court shall cause the clerk's
record to be filed with the Clerk of this Court by January 17, 2011.  This order constitutes notice to all parties,
pursuant to Rule 37.1 of the Texas Rules of Appellate Procedure, of the
defective certification.  If a supplemental
clerk's record containing a proper certification is not filed in accordance
with this order, this cause will be referred to the Court for dismissal.  See Tex. R. App. P. 25.2(d). 
                                                                        Per
Curiam
Do not publish.
 
 
                                                                                    
 
 

[1]The
appellate record is not yet due.