Opinion
No. 06-08-00033-CR
Submitted: March 18, 2008.
Decided: March 19, 2008. DO NOT PUBLISH.
On Appeal from the Sixth Judicial District Court, Lamar County, Texas, Trial Court No. 22385.
Before MORRISS, C.J., CARTER and MOSELEY, JJ.
MEMORANDUM OPINION
Brandon Eugene Washington has filed a notice of appeal for his conviction on his plea of guilty pursuant to a negotiated plea agreement to the offense of aggravated robbery. Washington was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment in accordance with that agreement. We have now received the clerk's record in this appeal. That record contains a certification of Washington's right of appeal as required by Rule 25.2 of the Texas Rules of Appellate Procedure. See Tex. R. App. P. 25.2. The certification states this "is a plea-bargain case, and the defendant has NO right of appeal" and is signed by Washington and his trial counsel. Unless a certification, showing that a defendant has the right of appeal, is in the record, we must dismiss the appeal. See Tex. R. App. P. 25.2(d). Because the trial court's certification affirmatively shows Washington has no right of appeal, and because the record before us does not reflect that the certification is incorrect, see Dears v. State, 154 S.W.3d 610, 615 (Tex.Crim.App. 2005), we must dismiss the appeal. We dismiss the appeal for want of jurisdiction.