Opinion
No. 06-09-00155-CR
Date Submitted: July 6, 2010.
Date Decided: July 20, 2010. DO NOT PUBLISH.
On Appeal from the 188th Judicial District Court, Gregg County, Texas, Trial Court No. 36302-A.
Before MORRISS, C.J., CARTER and MOSELEY, JJ.
MEMORANDUM OPINION
Gerald DeWayne Butler was convicted of aggravated robbery in four separate prosecutions, for multiple robberies of different victims, occurring on three different dates. Those convictions are all presently before this Court on appeal. A fifth robbery involving a shooting was prosecuted earlier, and that conviction was appealed to this Court. (All five robberies occurred during the span of six weeks.) Our opinion affirming the conviction on the fifth robbery issued on November 12, 2009. By agreement with the State and the trial judge, issues that were litigated in the first prosecution concerning a pretrial motion to suppress could also be brought forward as issues in his four current appeals. In this case, Butler appeals from his conviction on his plea of guilty pursuant to a plea agreement that granted him the right of appeal from pretrial hearings. He was convicted of aggravated robbery, with a deadly weapon finding, and sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment, to run consecutively with his other convictions. Butler raises three points on appeal wherein he alleges: (1) the court erred by denying his motion to suppress evidence; (2) the court erred by not suppressing his confession based on the violation of his right to exculpatory evidence under Brady ; and (3) the court erred by not suppressing his confession on constitutional grounds because he was not advised that he was being recorded. Because the issues raised in each appeal, and the facts underlying each appeal are identical, for the reasons stated in our opinion dated this day in Butler v. State, cause number 06-09-00150-CR, we likewise in this appeal affirm the judgment of the trial court.
Butler v. State, 300 S.W.3d 474 (Tex. App.-Texarkana 2009, pet. ref'd, untimely filed).
Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963).