Meraz v. State

OPINION

CHEW, Justice.

Appellant, Oscar Meraz, appeals from the trial court’s denial of the relief requested in an Application for Post Conviction Writ of Habeas Corpus. Appellant challenges the validity of his 1992 guilty plea to the misdemeanor charge of unlawfully carrying a weapon. Appellant’s first point of error complains that he was not represented by counsel at his plea hearing, and the second and third points of error concern the voluntariness of his plea of guilty. We affirm.

On November 5, 1992, seventeen-year-old Oscar Meraz, a Legal Permanent Resident of the United States, was…