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COURT OF APPEALS
SECOND DISTRICT OF TEXAS
FORT WORTH
NO. 2-07-352-CR
NO. 2-07-354-CR
BRYAN RAY ROE APPELLANT
V.
THE STATE OF TEXAS STATE
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FROM THE 355TH DISTRICT COURT OF HOOD COUNTY
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MEMORANDUM OPINION[1]
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Appellant Bryan Ray Roe appeals from two convictions for indecency with a childBexposure. The trial court convicted him in each case and sentenced him to confinement of ten years= in each case, with the sentences to run consecutively. In each case, Appellant=s court‑appointed appellate counsel has filed a motion to withdraw as counsel and a brief in support of that motion. In the briefs, counsel avers that, in his professional opinion, these appeals are frivolous. Counsel=s briefs and motions meet the requirements of Anders v. California[2] by presenting a professional evaluation of the records demonstrating why there are no arguable grounds for relief. Although Appellant was given an opportunity to file a pro se brief, he has not done so.
After an appellant=s court-appointed counsel files a motion to withdraw on the ground that the appeal is frivolous and fulfills the requirements of Anders, this court is obligated to undertake an independent examination of the record.[3] Only then may we grant counsel=s motion to withdraw.[4]
We have carefully reviewed counsel=s briefs and the records. We agree with counsel that these appeals are wholly frivolous and without merit; we find nothing in the records that arguably might support the appeals.[5] Accordingly, we grant counsel=s motions to withdraw and affirm the trial court=s judgments.
PER CURIAM
PANEL: DAUPHINOT, WALKER, and MCCOY, JJ.
DO NOT PUBLISH
Tex. R. App. P. 47.2(b)
DELIVERED: February 26, 2009
[1]See Tex. R. App. P. 47.4.
[2]386 U.S. 738, 87 S. Ct. 1396 (1967).
[3]See Stafford v. State, 813 S.W.2d 503, 511 (Tex. Crim. App. 1991); Mays v. State, 904 S.W.2d 920, 922B23 (Tex. App.CFort Worth 1995, no pet.).
[4]See Penson v. Ohio, 488 U.S. 75, 82B83, 109 S. Ct. 346, 351 (1988).
[5]See Bledsoe v. State, 178 S.W.3d 824, 827B28 (Tex. Crim. App. 2005).