Opinion
14-23-00956-CR
05-16-2024
ALEXANDER O'BRIAN LONON, Appellant v. THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee
On Appeal from the 458th District Court Fort Bend County, Texas Trial Court Cause No. 18-DCR-084582
Panel consists of Justices Jewell, Zimmerer, and Hassan.
ORDER
PER CURIAM
On April 22, 2024, appellant's counsel, L.T. "Butch" Bradt, filed a brief stating the appeal in this cause is frivolous. The brief, however, does not comply with Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738 (1967), or Currie v. State, 516 S.W.2d 683 (Tex. Crim. App. 1974), as interpreted in High v. State, 573 S.W.2d 807 (Tex. Crim. App. 1978).
The record reveals that appellant was charged with possession of a controlled substance, penalty group 2; that appellant pleaded guilty; and that the trial court deferred adjudication of guilt and placed appellant on deferred adjudication community supervision. The State later moved to adjudicate guilt based on several alleged violations of appellant's conditions of community supervision. After a two-day hearing, the trial court revoked appellant's deferred adjudication community supervision, adjudicated appellant guilty, and assessed sentence at thirty months in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice-Institutional Division.
Appellant filed a timely notice of appeal. The brief filed by appointed counsel does not analyze any adverse pretrial rulings, any adverse trial rulings, any adverse post-trial rulings, the sufficiency of the evidence underlying the grounds alleged for revocation of appellant's deferred adjudication community supervision, whether fundamental error occurred, and appellant's sentence. The brief does not note pages where objections were made, the nature of the objections, the trial court's rulings, or discuss the correctness or harmlessness of such rulings. See High, 573 S.W.2d at 813.
To provide appellant with the effective assistance of counsel on appeal, it is ORDERED that the brief filed in appellate cause number 14-23-00956-CR, styled Alexander O'Brian Lonon v. The State of Texas, be struck and appellant's counsel, L.T. "Butch" Bradt, file a brief in compliance with the appellate rules and the Anders procedure in this court on or before June 17, 2024.