Brown v. State

OPINION ON APPELLANT’S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

KELLER, Judge.

We granted review in the present ease to determine an issue left open by our prior decisions in Price v. State, 866 S.W.2d 606 (Tex.Crim.App.1993) and Ray v. State, 919 S.W.2d 125 (Tex.Crim.App.1996): whether the failure to give certain information required by Article 42.12 § 5(a) 1 alone renders a defendant’s guilty plea involuntary when deferred adjudication was an element of a plea agreement between the parties. The Court of Appeals held that the failure to inform the defendant of the consequences of a revocation of…