Ex Parte Spicuzza
Texas Court of Appeals, 1st District (Houston)
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
HUTSON-DUNN, Justice,
This is an accelerated appeal. The appellant, Charles Dean Spieuzza, appeals from a habeas corpus order in which the trial court set aside appellant’s no-contest plea and set his case for trial. Although the court granted appellant’s application for writ of habeas corpus, it held that he was not entitled to specific performance of an alleged plea agreement. In his sole point of error, appellant contends that the court erred in refusing to specifically enforce the agreement because appellant entered his plea based upon promises by the trial court that it would…
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