Ex Parte Villanueva

OPINION

The court of appeals held that it did not have jurisdiction over Armando Quintana Villanueva’s appeal from the trial judge’s decision to deny his Article 11.072 application for a writ of habeas corpus as frivolous because the trial judge refused to consider the merits of Villanueva’s claims. 1 We reverse the court of appeals’s decision and remand this case so that the court can determine whether it has jurisdiction to consider Villanueva’s appeal under Article, 11.072, Section 8, which governs the right to appeal. 2

Background

In 2000, Villanueva pled guilty to the Class A misdemeanor…