Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2016-08-08 08:47:29.128287+00
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COURT OF APPEALS
                            SECOND DISTRICT OF TEXAS
                                 FORT WORTH

                                NO. 02-16-00239-CR

RICHARD BROWN                                                      APPELLANT

                                         V.

THE STATE OF TEXAS                                                      STATE

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     FROM CRIMINAL DISTRICT COURT NO. 3 OF TARRANT COUNTY
                   TRIAL COURT NO. 1250248D

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                           MEMORANDUM OPINION1

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      In June 2012, Appellant Richard Brown pled guilty to indecency with a

child by contact and true to a repeat offender allegation in exchange for eleven

years’ confinement,2 and the trial court followed the plea bargain and sentenced

      1
          See Tex. R. App. P. 47.4.
      2
      See Tex. Penal Code Ann. § 21.11(a)(1), (d) (West 2011) (providing
indecency by contact is second-degree felony), id. § 12.42(b) (West Supp.
Appellant accordingly.3 The trial court’s certification states that this is a plea-

bargained case and that Appellant has no right of appeal.4 The certification also

contains a boilerplate endnote,

      * . . . . In a plea bargain case—that is, a case in which a defendant’s
      plea was guilty or nolo contendere and the punishment did not
      exceed the punishment recommended by the prosecutor and agreed
      to by the defendant—a defendant may appeal only (A) those matters
      that were raised by written motion filed and ruled on before trial, or
      (B) after getting the trial court’s permission to appeal.5

      On May 23, 2016, about forty-six months too late,6 Appellant filed a notice

of appeal based on the apparent denial of his pretrial motion to quash. We

informed Appellant by letter that his case was subject to dismissal based on the

untimeliness of the notice of appeal unless he or any party desiring to continue

the appeal showed grounds for continuing it. His response does not show such

grounds.

      A notice of appeal that complies with the requirements of rule 26 is

essential to vest this court with jurisdiction.7   The Texas Court of Criminal

2015) (providing defendant convicted of second-degree felony is punished for
first-degree felony when prior felony conviction is also shown).
      3
          See Tex. R. App. P. 25.2(a)(2).
      4
          See Tex. R. App. P. 25.2(d).
      5
          See Tex. R. App. P. 25.2(a)(2), (d).
      6
        See Tex. R. App. P. 26.2(a)(1) (providing notice of appeal must be filed
within thirty days of sentencing).
      7
          See id.

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Appeals has expressly held that without a timely filed notice of appeal or motion

for extension of time, we cannot exercise jurisdiction over an appeal.8

      Because Appellant’s notice of appeal was untimely filed, we dismiss this

case for want of jurisdiction.9

                                                          PER CURIAM

PANEL: DAUPHINOT, GARDNER, and WALKER, JJ.

DO NOT PUBLISH
Tex. R. App. P. 47.2(b)

DELIVERED: August 4, 2016

      8
          Olivo v. State, 918 S.W.2d 519, 522 (Tex. Crim. App. 1996).
      9
          See Tex. R. App. P. 43.2(f).

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