Opinion
13-22-00391-CR 13-22-00392-CR13-22-00393-CR
10-13-2022
JOANN FLORES, Appellant, v. THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee.
Do not publish. Tex.R.App.P. 47.2(b).
On appeal from the 148th District Court of Nueces County, Texas.
Before Chief Justice Contreras and Justices Benavides and Tijerina
MEMORANDUM OPINION
DORI CONTRERAS CHIEF JUSTICE
Appellant JoAnn Flores has filed notices of appeal from trial court cause numbers 17FC-4472-E, 19FC-1904-E, and 20FC-1187-E in the 148th District Court of Nueces County, Texas. These appeals were filed respectively in our cause numbers 13-22-00391-CR, 13-22-00392-CR, and 13-22-00393-CR. In each case, appellant attempts to appeal from orders imposing sanctions and continuing or modifying probation. We address these three appeals in one memorandum opinion for judicial efficiency. We dismiss the appeals for want of jurisdiction.
Appellant's name appears in the notice of appeal and related documents as JoAnn Flores, Joann Flores, and Jo Ann Flores. This discrepancy is not material to our analysis.
As an appellate court, we have the obligation to determine our jurisdiction over these appeals. See Ramirez v. State, 89 S.W.3d 222, 225 (Tex. App.-Corpus Christi- Edinburg 2002, no pet.); Yarbrough v. State, 57 S.W.3d 611, 615 (Tex. App.-Texarkana 2001, pet. ref'd). "[I]n Texas, appeals by either the State or the defendant in a criminal case are permitted only when they are specifically authorized by statute." State ex rel. Lykos v. Fine, 330 S.W.3d 904, 915 (Tex. Crim. App. 2011); see Tex. Code Crim. Proc. Ann. art. 44.02 (addressing the defendant's right to appeal in a criminal case); Tex.R.App.P. 25.2(a)(2) (same). "The standard for determining jurisdiction is not whether the appeal is precluded by law, but whether the appeal is authorized by law." Abbott v. State, 271 S.W.3d 694, 696-97 (Tex. Crim. App. 2008); see Wilson v. State, 644 S.W.3d 761, 762 (Tex. App.-Austin 2022, no pet.). This Court does not have jurisdiction to consider an appeal from an order altering or modifying the conditions of community supervision. See Davis v. State, 195 S.W.3d 708, 710 (Tex. Crim. App. 2006); Basaldua v. State, 558 S.W.2d 2, 5 (Tex. Crim. App. 1977); Christopher v. State, 7 S.W.3d 224, 225 (Tex. App.- Houston [1st Dist.] 1999, pet. ref'd).
On August 24, 2022, the Clerk of this Court notified appellant that it appeared that there was no final, appealable judgment in these causes and advised appellant that the appeals would be subject to dismissal unless the defect was corrected within thirty days. Appellant did not respond to the Clerk's notices.
The Court, having examined and fully considered the documents on file, is of the opinion that these appeals should be dismissed for want of jurisdiction. Accordingly, we dismiss the appeals for want of jurisdiction. See Tex. R. App. P. 42.3(a).