Michael Daniel Salinas v. State

Affirmed and Memorandum Opinion filed July 9, 2009

Affirmed and Memorandum Opinion filed July 9, 2009.

 

In The

 

Fourteenth Court of Appeals

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NO. 14-08-00559-CR

 

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MICHAEL DANIEL SALINAS, Appellant

 

V.

 

THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee

 

 

On Appeal from the 174th District Court

Harris County, Texas

Trial Court Cause No. 1052417

 

 

M E M O R A N D U M   O P I N I O N

Appellant entered a guilty plea to robbery without an agreement with the State on punishment.  On March 21, 2006, the trial court deferred a finding of guilt, placed appellant on community supervision for five years and assessed a fine of $500.  The trial court granted the State=s motion to adjudicate guilt, and on June 26, 2008, the court sentenced appellant to confinement for fifteen years in the Institutional Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.  Appellant filed a timely notice of appeal.


Appellant=s appointed counsel filed a brief in which he concludes this appeal is wholly frivolous and without merit.  The brief meets the requirements of Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738, 87 S. Ct. 1396 (1967), by presenting a professional evaluation of the record and demonstrating why there are no arguable grounds to be advanced.  See High v. State, 573 S.W.2d 807, 811-12 (Tex. Crim. App. 1978).

A copy of counsel=s brief was delivered to appellant.  Appellant was advised of the right to examine the appellate record and file a pro se response.  See Stafford v. State, 813 S.W.2d 503, 510 (Tex. Crim. App. 1991).  As of this date, more than sixty days has elapsed and no pro se response has been filed.

We have carefully reviewed the record and counsel=s brief and agree the appeal is wholly frivolous and without merit.  Further, we find no reversible error in the record.  A discussion of the brief would add nothing to the jurisprudence of the state.  We are not to address the merits of each claim raised in an Anders brief or a pro se response when we have determined there are no arguable grounds for review.  See Bledsoe v. State, 178 S.W.3d 824, 827-28 (Tex. Crim. App. 2005).

Accordingly, the judgment of the trial court is affirmed.

 

PER CURIAM

 

Panel consists of Chief Justice Hedges and Justices Yates and Frost. 

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