Court Opinion

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NO. 07-03-0374-CR

IN THE COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE SEVENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS

AT AMARILLO

PANEL A

APRIL 30, 2004

______________________________

GERARDO OJEDA, APPELLANT

V.

THE STATE OF TEXAS, APPELLEE

_________________________________

FROM THE 222ND DISTRICT COURT OF DEAF SMITH COUNTY;

NO. CR-02H-103; HONORABLE H. BRYAN POFF, JR., JUDGE

_______________________________

Before JOHNSON, C.J., and REAVIS and CAMPBELL, JJ.
MEMORANDUM OPINION
	Appellant Gerardo Ojeda filed a Motion to Dismiss Appeal on April 8, 2004, averring
that he no longer wishes to prosecute his appeal.   The Motion to Dismiss is signed by both
appellant and his attorney.  
	Without passing on the merits of the case, appellant's motion for voluntary dismissal
is granted and the appeal is hereby dismissed.  Tex. R. App. P. 42.2.   Having dismissed 

the appeal at appellant's personal request, no motion for rehearing will be entertained and
our mandate will issue forthwith.  

							Phil Johnson
						    	Chief Justice

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encing. 
However, counsel has satisfactorily explained why each argument lacked merit. 
	 Through his pro se brief, appellant also raised the issue of whether he received
effective assistance of counsel at trial because his attorney purportedly 1) failed to do any
pretrial investigation, 2) failed to seek out and interview potential witnesses, 3) failed to file
a pretrial motion to take depositions of the victims, and 4) promised him that if the trial court
made a finding that placing him on community supervision was in the best interest of the
victims, he would automatically be granted probation.  The record, however, is devoid of
any evidence supporting any of the claims.  So, since claims of ineffective assistance must
be firmly founded in the record,  McFarland v. State, 928 S.W.2d 482, 500 (Tex. Crim. App.
1996), overruled on other grounds by Mosley v. State, 983 S.W.2d 249 (Tex. Crim. App.
1998), and appellant's is not, we find the allegation lacking in merit.
	Lastly, we conducted our own review of the record to uncover any arguable error,
as required by Stafford v. State, 813 S.W.2d 503 (Tex. Crim. App. 1991), and found none. 
Accordingly, the motions to withdraw are granted, and the judgments are affirmed.

							Brian Quinn 
							   Justice

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1. Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738, 744-45, 87 S. Ct. 1396, 18 L. Ed. 2d 493 (1967).