Legal Opinion

Rivera v. State

Texas Court of Appeals, 13th District

Decided March 11, 2004No. 13-03-219-CRPublishedCited by 46 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

Opinion by Justice CASTILLO.

A jury convicted appellant Luis Rivera IV of injury to a child, a first degree felony. 1 The trial court sentenced him to forty years confinement in the Institutional Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. The trial court has certified that this is not a plea-bargain case, and Rivera has a right to appeal. See Tex.R.App. P. 25.2(a)(2). This appeal ensued. We affirm.

I. PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

A grand jury indicted Rivera on September 13, 2002 on two counts of injury to a child. On September 20, 2002, by a document dated August 27, 2002, a Corpus…

2Cases cited19 opinions

  1. Anders v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
  2. Ex Parte WilsonCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1997
  3. McCoy v. Court of Appeals of Wisconsin, District 1Supreme Court of the United States · 1988
  4. Mays v. StateCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1995
  5. Cooper v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2001

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3Cited by46 opinions

  1. Meza v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2006
  2. Crawford v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 13th District2004
  3. Lopez v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 6th District (Texarkana)2009
  4. Torres v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 7th District (Amarillo)2008
  5. Albertico Cruz v. the State of Texas, Texas Court of Appeals, 11th District (Eastland)2023

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