Lundgren v. State

I cannot join the majority’s thoughtful opinion and must respectfully dissent.

This court has repeatedly held that when a defendant is placed on community supervision, even as the result of a plea bargain, that defendant must file a motion for new trial to complain of conditions of community supervision, involuntariness of a negotiated plea, or ineffective assistance of counsel or that the punishment is infirm.1 Yet the majority now says that because Appellant entered into a negotiated plea and waived his right of appeal, he cannot do what we have told him he must do to preserve certain…