in the Matter of J. A.

TEXAS COURT OF APPEALS, THIRD DISTRICT, AT AUSTIN

NO. 03-11-00259-CV

In the Matter of J. A.

FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF TRAVIS COUNTY, 98TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT

NO. J-24,630, HONORABLE W. JEANNE MEURER, JUDGE PRESIDING

M E M O R A N D U M O P I N I O N

In 2006 the trial court adjudicated J.A., then 16 years old, guilty of the offense of aggravated robbery and committed him to the Texas Youth Commission for a determinate sentence of sixteen years. Four-and-a-half years later, the youth commission requested that J.A. be transferred to the Institutional Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice…