Court Opinion

ID: 4251094
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2018-03-01 21:33:21.074527+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:32:22.662907
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In The

                                 Court of Appeals
                     Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont
                            ____________________
                               NO. 09-18-00006-CR
                            ____________________

                         DWIGHT JOHNSON, Appellant

                                          V.

                        THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee
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                  On Appeal from the Criminal District Court
                          Jefferson County, Texas
                         Trial Cause No. 16-26483
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                           MEMORANDUM OPINION

      On December 6, 2017, the trial court sentenced Dwight Johnson on a

conviction for failure to register as a sex offender. Johnson filed a notice of appeal

on December 17, 2017. The trial court signed a certification in which the court

certified that this is a plea-bargain case and the defendant has no right of appeal, and

the defendant has waived the right of appeal. See Tex. R. App. P. 25.2(a)(2). The

district clerk has provided the trial court’s certification to the Court of Appeals. On

January 24, 2018, we notified the parties that we would dismiss the appeal unless

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the appellant established grounds for continuing the appeal. The appellant has not

filed a response that establishes that the trial court’s certification should be amended.

Because the trial court’s certification shows the defendant does not have the right of

appeal, we must dismiss the appeal. See Tex. R. App. P. 25.2(d). Accordingly, we

dismiss the appeal.

      APPEAL DISMISSED.

                                               ________________________________
                                                       LEANNE JOHNSON
                                                             Justice

Submitted on February 27, 2018
Opinion Delivered February 28, 2018
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Before McKeithen, C.J., Kreger and Johnson, JJ.

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