Court Opinion

ID: 9928880
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Date Created: 2024-02-01 09:12:13.924615+00
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In The
                                Court of Appeals
                       Seventh District of Texas at Amarillo

                                       No. 07-23-00385-CR

                        MARIA ISABEL VELASQUEZ, APPELLANT

                                                   V.

                            THE STATE OF TEXAS, APPELLEE

                           On Appeal from the 181st District Court
                                   Potter County, Texas
            Trial Court No. 081727-B-CR, Honorable Titiana D. Frausto, Presiding

                                       January 25, 2024
                     ORDER OF ABATEMENT AND REMAND
                      Before PARKER and DOSS and YARBROUGH, JJ.

       Pursuant to a plea bargain agreement, Appellant, Maria Isabel Velasquez, was

placed on deferred adjudication community supervision for aggravated assault with a

deadly weapon.1      On September 11, 2023, the trial court signed a certification of

Appellant’s right of appeal indicating that this is a plea bargain case with no right of appeal

and that Appellant has waived her right of appeal.          Subsequently, at a hearing on

       1 See TEX. PENAL CODE ANN. § 22.02(a)(2).
September 28, 2023, the trial court orally granted Appellant permission to appeal her

placement on deferred adjudication community supervision. Appellant filed this appeal,

but no certification reflecting that the trial court has given her permission to appeal has

been filed with this Court.

       We are required by Rule of Appellate Procedure 25.2(d) to dismiss an appeal “if a

certification that shows the defendant has the right of appeal has not been made part of

the record.” Because the current certification of Appellant’s right of appeal appears

defective, we abate the appeal and remand the cause to the trial court to prepare an

amended certification consistent with the record. See TEX. R. APP. P. 25.2(d), (f); Dears

v. State, 154 S.W.3d 610, 613–14 (Tex. Crim. App. 2005) (requiring an appellate court to

determine whether the trial court’s certification comports to the record). The trial court

shall utilize reasonable means to secure appellant’s signature on the amended

certification. See TEX. R. APP. P. 25.2(d). The amended certification shall be included in

a supplemental clerk’s record filed with the Clerk of this Court by February 26, 2024.

       It is so ordered.

                                                 Per Curiam

Do not publish.

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