In The
Court of Appeals
Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont
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NO. 09-12-00475-CR
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JERMAINE SIMS, Appellant
V.
THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee
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On Appeal from the 252nd District Court
Jefferson County, Texas
Trial Cause No. 10-08895
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MEMORANDUM OPINION
Pursuant to a plea bargain agreement, Jermaine Sims pleaded guilty to
unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon. The trial court found the evidence
sufficient to substantiate Sims’s guilt, deferred further proceedings, and placed
Sims on community supervision for eight years. The State later filed a motion to
revoke Sims’s community supervision. Sims pleaded “true” to violating three
conditions of his community supervision. The trial court found that Sims violated
the conditions of his community supervision, found Sims guilty of unlawful
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possession of a firearm by a felon, revoked Sims’s community supervision, and
sentenced Sims to ten years in prison.
Sims’s appellate counsel filed a brief that presents counsel’s professional
evaluation of the record and concludes Sims’s appeal is frivolous. See Anders v.
California, 386 U.S. 738 (1967); High v. State, 573 S.W.2d 807 (Tex. Crim. App.
1978). On April 19, 2013, we granted an extension of time for Sims to file a pro se
brief. We received no response from Sims. We have determined that this appeal is
wholly frivolous. We have independently examined the clerk’s record and the
reporter’s record, and we agree that no arguable issues support an appeal. We find
it unnecessary to order appointment of new counsel to re-brief the appeal.
Compare Stafford v. State, 813 S.W.2d 503, 511 (Tex. Crim. App. 1991). We
affirm the trial court’s judgment. 1
AFFIRMED.
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STEVE McKEITHEN
Chief Justice
Submitted on September 16, 2013
Opinion Delivered September 25, 2013
Do Not Publish
Before McKeithen, C.J., Kreger and Horton, JJ.
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Sims may challenge our decision by filing a petition for discretionary
review. See Tex. R. App. P. 68.
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