Court Opinion

ID: 5118650
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2021-10-15 07:16:31.818059+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:22:08.433233
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In The

                                 Court of Appeals

                     Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont

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                                NO. 09-21-00265-CR
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                       JOSE OSWALDO CRUZ, Appellant

                                           V.

                        THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee

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                On Appeal from the 221st District Court
                     Montgomery County, Texas
                   Trial Cause No. 20-07-08459-CR
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                           MEMORANDUM OPINION

      On April 13, 2021, the trial court sentenced Jose Oswaldo Cruz, Appellant,

on a conviction for continuous sexual abuse of a child. Cruz filed a notice of appeal

on August 27, 2021. The trial court entered a certification of the defendant’s right to

appeal in which the court certified that this is a plea-bargain case and the defendant

has no 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.

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      On September 1, 2021, we notified the parties that we would dismiss the

appeal unless the appellant established grounds for continuing the appeal. Because

the record does not contain a certification that shows Cruz has the right of appeal,

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

notice of appeal after his conviction became final and too late to perfect an appeal.

See Tex. R. App. P. 26.2. Accordingly, we dismiss the appeal.

      APPEAL DISMISSED.

                                                          PER CURIAM

Submitted on October 12, 2021
Opinion Delivered October 13, 2021
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Before Golemon, C.J., Kreger and Horton, JJ.

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