Lutz v. State

OPINION

DAVID PURYEAR, Justice.

In 1982, appellant Joe Lawrence Lutz was convicted of aggravated rape in Taylor County. In 1983, appellant Joseph Alfred Rome, Jr., was convicted of aggravated sexual abuse of a child in Denton County. In 2002, Lutz and Rome were indicted in Travis County for violating requirements of the Texas Sex Offender Registration Program. After their pretrial motions to dismiss were overruled, Lutz and Rome entered bargained pleas of guilty and were sentenced to prison terms of six and three years, respectively. These companion appeals raise the question of whether Lutz’s…