Court Opinion

ID: 9555231
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-11 07:10:14.241513+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:41:57.544479
License: Public Domain

In The

                                 Court of Appeals

                     Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont

                               __________________

                               NO. 09-23-00180-CR
                               __________________

                    TEVIN DAMON MCGHEE, Appellant

                                          V.

                       THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee

__________________________________________________________________

               On Appeal from the 252nd District Court
                      Jefferson County, Texas
                     Trial Cause No. F21-38632
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                           MEMORANDUM OPINION

      On May 3, 2023, the trial court sentenced Tevin Damon McGhee on an

indictment for burglary of a habitation. The trial court signed a certification in which

the trial court certified that this is a plea-bargain case and McGhee has no right of

appeal.1 On May 26, 2023, McGhee filed a notice of appeal pro se. The District

Clerk provided the certification to the Court of Appeals.

      1See Tex. R. App. P. 25.2(a)(2).

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      On June 28, 2023, we notified the parties that we would dismiss the appeal

unless the appellant established the certification was incorrect. McGhee, through

appointed counsel, requested additional time to obtain an amended certification. In

a response, the State asserted McGhee pleaded guilty in exchange for the dismissal

of five other cases. On July 18, 2023, the trial court denied McGhee’s motion to

amend the certification and reaffirmed that the case was a plea-bargain case with no

right of appeal.

      McGhee failed to establish that the certification that McGhee has no right of

appeal is incorrect. We dismiss the appeal. 2

      APPEAL DISMISSED.

                                                          PER CURIAM

Submitted on August 8, 2023
Opinion Delivered August 9, 2023
Do Not Publish

Before Golemon, C.J., Horton and Wright, JJ.

      2See id. 25.2(d).

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