Court Opinion

ID: 5120853
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2021-10-25 07:20:30.075379+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:22:19.523945
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IN THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS
                        OF TEXAS
                                      NO. WR-60,332-06

                         EX PARTE SIMON LEE RILEY, Applicant

              ON APPLICATION FOR A WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS
            CAUSE NO. B-02-0291-S-W-3 IN THE 119TH DISTRICT COURT
                          FROM TOM GREEN COUNTY

       Per curiam.

                                           ORDER

       Applicant was convicted of aggravated robbery and sentenced to thirty-five years’

imprisonment. The trial court ordered his sentence to run consecutively with a previous sentence

pursuant to the State’s request to cumulate sentences. The Third Court of Appeals affirmed

Applicant’s conviction, although ordering that the judgment be modified to reflect the correct

amount of pre-sentencing jail time credit. Riley v. State, No. 03-04-00206-CR (Tex. App. — Austin

Dec. 16, 2004) (not designated for publication). Applicant has filed two previous applications for

writs of habeas corpus pertaining to this conviction, the first of which was denied and the second

dismissed as a subsequent application barred by Article 11.07, §4 of the Texas Code of Criminal

Procedure. After Applicant filed his second habeas application challenging this conviction but
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before this Court dismissed that application, the trial court entered a judgment nunc pro tunc

correcting one letter in the cause number of the conviction upon which Applicant’s sentence in this

case was cumulated. Applicant filed this application for a writ of habeas corpus in the county of

conviction, and the district clerk forwarded it to this Court. See TEX . CODE CRIM . PROC. art. 11.07.

        In this application, Applicant alleges that the trial court’s entry of the judgment nunc pro tunc

correcting the cause number of the sentence with which this sentence was cumulated was improper,

because the error on the original judgment was the product of judicial reasoning rather than a clerical

error. Because the factual basis for this claim was not available at the time Applicant filed his initial

habeas application challenging this conviction, this claim is not barred by Section 4. However, this

claim is without merit, as the record supports the conclusion that the error was a clerical error and

not the result of judicial reasoning. Therefore, that claim is denied. Applicant also alleges that the

cumulation order is invalid, but this claim was available when Applicant filed his initial application,

and is barred by Section 4. Therefore, that claim is dismissed.

        The trial court recommends that relief be granted in the form of an out-of-time appeal from

the judgment nunc pro tunc, because Applicant was not provided with an opportunity to be present

for a hearing, represented by counsel, before the entry of an unfavorable judgment nunc pro tunc.

Shaw v. State, 539 S.W.2d 887, 890 (Tex. Crim. App. 1976). However, Applicant does not raise this

claim in his application, and this Court declines to grant relief on a claim not raised or argued by

Applicant.

Filed: October 20, 2021
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