Court Opinion

ID: 9401481
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Date Created: 2023-06-13 14:11:07.600349+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:19:53.215787
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TEXAS COURT OF APPEALS, THIRD DISTRICT, AT AUSTIN

                                     NO. 03-23-00292-CV

                                          In re D. C.

                      ORIGINAL PROCEEDING FROM BELL COUNTY

                            MEMORANDUM OPINION

               Relator has filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus complaining of ineffective

assistance of counsel and lack of knowing and voluntary waiver of the right to a trial preceding

her entry into a written plea agreement with the State of Texas, under which she plead true to

charges of delinquent conduct and received a determinate sentence of 20 years confinement.

Having reviewed the petition and the record provided, we dismiss the petition for want of

jurisdiction. See Tex. R. App. P. 52.8(a). Although we have appellate jurisdiction to review a

trial court’s order denying habeas relief, see Ex parte Valle, 104 S.W.3d 888, 890 (Tex. Crim.

App. 2003), we do not have original jurisdiction in habeas cases except in very narrow

circumstances not implicated here. See Tex. Gov’t Code Ann. § 22.221(d); see also In re Reece,

341 S.W.3d 360, 364 n.3 (Tex. 2011) (orig. proceeding); In re J.M.W., No. 12–17–00043–CV,

2017 WL 513056, at *1 (Tex. App.—Tyler Feb. 8, 2017, orig. proceeding) (mem. op.).

Accordingly, the petition is dismissed.
                                            _________________________________________
                                            Darlene Byrne, Chief Justice

Before Chief Justice Byrne, Justices Triana and Theofanis

Filed: June 13, 2023

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