Ex parte Vasquez

OPINION

Jane Bland, Justice

Appellant, Jaime Vasquez, appeals the denial of his application for a writ of habe-as corpus filed seventeen years after his 1997 guilty plea and judgment of conviction for the offense of indecency with a child. Vasquez successfully completed six years’ deferred adjudication community supervision for the offense. The trial court denied Vasquez’s habeas application both on its merits and, alternatively, on the basis that the application was barred under the doctrine of laches because the delay in filing materially prejudiced the State. We affirm.

BACKGROUND

On May 28,…