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COURT OF APPEALS
SECOND DISTRICT OF TEXAS
FORT WORTH
NO. 2-07-185-CR
MICHAEL ALAN CHAFFIN APPELLANT
V.
THE STATE OF TEXAS STATE
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FROM THE 235TH DISTRICT COURT OF COOKE COUNTY
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MEMORANDUM OPINION[1]
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A jury convicted Appellant Michael Alan Chaffin of failing to comply with sex offender registration requirements and assessed punishment at eight years= confinement and a $5,000 fine. The trial court sentenced him accordingly.
Appellant=s court-appointed counsel has filed a motion to withdraw as counsel and a brief in support of that motion. Counsel=s brief and motion meet the requirements of Anders v. California[2] by presenting a professional evaluation of the record demonstrating why there are no reversible grounds on appeal and referencing any grounds that might arguably support the appeal.[3] We afforded Appellant an opportunity to file a brief on his own behalf; he did not do so.
In our duties as a reviewing court, we must conduct an independent evaluation of the record to determine whether counsel is correct in determining that the appeal is frivolous.[4] Only then may we grant counsel=s motion to withdraw.[5]
We have carefully reviewed the record and counsel=s brief. We agree that the appeal is wholly frivolous and without merit. We find nothing in the record that might arguably support the appeal.[6] We therefore grant the motion to withdraw filed by Appellant=s counsel and affirm the trial court=s judgment.
PER CURIAM
PANEL F: GARDNER, WALKER, AND MCCOY, JJ.
DO NOT PUBLISH
Tex. R. App. P. 47.2(b)
DELIVERED: June 12, 2008
[1]See Tex. R. App. P. 47.4.
[2]386 U.S. 738, 87 S. Ct. 1396 (1967).
[3]See Mays v. State, 904 S.W.2d 920, 922B23 (Tex. App.CFort Worth 1995, no pet.).
[4]See Stafford v. State, 813 S.W.2d 503, 511 (Tex. Crim. App. 1991); Mays, 904 S.W.2d at 923.
[5]See Penson v. Ohio, 488 U.S. 75, 83B84, 109 S. Ct. 346, 351B52 (1988).
[6]See Bledsoe v. State, 178 S.W.3d 824, 827 (Tex. Crim. App. 2005).