Ex Parte Gibbons

OPINION

REX D. DAVIS Chief Justice

A jury convicted Appellant Roman Shea Gibbons of engaging in organized criminal activity. See Tex. Pen.Code Ann. § 71.02 (Vernon 1994 & Supp.1999). Gibbons waived a jury determination of his sentence and entered into a plea agreement for punishment. The plea agreement provided that Gibbons’ ten year sentence would be suspended and he would be placed on community supervision for ten years. As part of this plea bargain Gibbons signed a waiver of appeal. This Court dismissed Gibbons’ original appeal in an unpublished opinion because he had knowingly and…