Ex Parte: Jason Jones v. the State of Texas

COURT OF APPEALS EIGHTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS EL PASO, TEXAS § No. 08-22-00237-CR EX PARTE: § Appeal from the JASON JONES § 171st Judicial District Court § of El Paso County, Texas § Cause No. 970D08935-171-1 CONCURRING OPINION I write separately from the Court to address the issue driving Jones’s appeal: that is, a purported obligation to register as a sex offender for the remainder of his life. And this supposed obligation is imposed regardless of his long ago discharge from deferred adjudication community supervision, and formal dismissal of the underlying criminal charge without a conviction…