Dingler v. State

Full title: JOSEPH DINGLER A/K/A JOE K. DINGLER, Appellant, v. THE STATE OF TEXAS…

Court: Court of Appeals of Texas, Fifth District, Dallas

Date published: May 5, 2005

Nos. 05-03-01552-CR, 05-03-01553-CR (Tex. App. May. 5, 2005)

Opinion

Nos. 05-03-01552-CR, 05-03-01553-CR

Opinion Filed May 5, 2005. DO NOT PUBLISH. Tex.R.App.P. 47.

On Appeal from the Criminal District Court No. 3, Dallas County, Texas, Trial Court Cause No. F97-01137-Rsj and F96-53877-LJ. Affirm.

Before Justices BRIDGES, RICHTER, and LANG.

OPINION

Opinion By Justice RICHTER.

Pursuant to a plea bargain agreement, Joseph Dingler a/k/a Joe K. Dingler pleaded no contest to two felony driving while intoxicated (DWI) offenses and was placed on probation. Following several modifications to the terms of community supervision and extensions to the supervisory period, the trial judge revoked Dingler's probation and sentenced him to prison. On appeal, Dingler raises thirty-seven points of error, loosely categorized as complaints about (a) the trial court's jurisdiction over the original offenses, (b) the voluntariness of his no contest pleas, (c) certain modification orders, (d) the revocation motion and order, (e) certain prior appeals, and (f) certain actions by the trial court and this Court during the pendency of the appeals. Finding Dingler's points without merit, inadequately briefed, or not properly before this Court, we affirm the trial court's judgments.

Background

Dingler was arrested for DWI in December 1996 (appellate cause number 05-03-01553-CR) and again the following March (appellate cause number 05-03-01552-CR). Alleging he had been previously convicted of two DWIs on October 12, 1992, the State charged Dingler in each case with felony DWI. See Tex. Pen. Code Ann. § 49.09(b)(2) (Vernon Supp. 2004-05). The cases were heard together in November 1997 and pursuant to a plea bargain agr