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624 S.W.2d 906

Crawford v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided September 30, 1981

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas · decided 1981-09-30

Key passage — most relied on by later courts

““In the trial court appellant presented a motion to suppress, which challenged the search warrant. After the trial court denied the motion to suppress, appellant entered a plea of true to the motion to revoke. In the previously withdrawn per curiam opinion the court held that appellant’s grounds of error challenging the search warrant presented no error because the order revoking probation was based on the plea of true, not on the fruits of the search. On rehearing appellant asserts his plea was entered on condition that he be allowed to appeal the ruling on the motion to suppress. The record of the proceedings in the trial court supports this factual assertion. In view of the holding on original submission that the ruling on the motion to suppress could not be raised on appeal, appellant now argues his plea of true was not knowingly and voluntarily entered and that he was denied due process. “The State contends the issue may not be raised for the first time on rehearing. Mooney v. State, 615 S.W.2d 776 (Tex.Cr.App.1981), is contrary to the State’s position: “ 'In Wooten v. State, 612 S.W.2d 561, 563 (Tex.Cr.App.[1981]) we held: “ ‘ “If the plea was entered with such an agreement or understanding that the merits of the motion would be preserved for appeal, then the trial court was not authorized by State law to accept such a plea.... As a matter of constitutional law a guilty plea cannot be said to have been voluntary if it was induced by an agreement approved by the court th”

quoted by 1 later decision, including LeBlanc v. State

Relies on Henderson v. Morgan · Wooten v. State · Mooney v. State

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Decided 1981-09-30

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Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently December 2001

17 state decisions

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¶1OPINION ON APPELLANT’S MOTION FOR REHEARING

ODOM, Judge.

¶2This is an appeal from an order revoking probation. On June 18,1980, the judgment was affirmed in a per curiam opinion. Subsequently the case was submitted for rehearing on the court’s own motion. In our opinion of May 20,1981, the original per curiam opinion was withdrawn, and, after consideration of the issue of whether the motion to revoke was fundamentally defective, the judgment was affirmed.

¶3In the trial court appellant presented a motion to suppress, which challenged the search warrant. After the trial court denied the motion to suppress, appellant entered a plea of true to the motion to revoke. In the previously withdrawn per curiam opinion the court held that appellant’s grounds of error challenging the search warrant presented no error because the order revoking probation was based on the plea of true, not on the fruits of the search. On rehearing appellant asserts his plea was *909entered on condition that he be allowed to appeal the ruling on the motion to suppress. The record of the proceedings in the trial court supports this factual assertion. In view of the holding on original submission that the ruling on the motion to suppress could not be raised on appeal, appellant now argues his plea of true was not knowingly and voluntarily entered and that he was denied due process.

¶4The State contends the issue may not be raised for the first time on rehearing. Mooney v. State, 615 S.W.2d 776 (Tex.Cr.App.1981), is contrary to the State’s position:

“In Wooten v. State, 612 S.W.2d 561, 563 (Tex.Cr.App.) we held:
“ ‘If the plea was entered with such an agreement or understanding that the merits of the motion would be preserved for appeal, then the trial court was not authorized by State law to accept such a plea.... As a matter of constitutional law a guilty plea cannot be said to have been voluntary if it was induced by an agreement approved by the court that a question could be appealed when that agreement could not be fulfilled.’ (Emphasis added.)
“Because the trial court lacked authority to accept Dean Mooney’s conditional plea, the conviction must be set aside even though the issue was not raised in appellant’s brief. Killebrew v. State, 464 S.W.2d 838 (Tex.Cr.App.). Furthermore, since the plea was involuntary as a matter of constitutional law, Wooten, supra, the conviction violates due process and would be subject to collateral attack. See Henderson v. Morgan, 426 U.S. 637, 96 S.Ct. 2253, 49 L.Ed.2d 108 (1976).”

¶5Although Mooneyinvolved a conviction after a plea of nolo contendere, while this case presents a revocation of probation after a plea of true, we do not find this to be a significant distinction. Both pleas were conditional, and the trial court lacked authority to accept a conditional plea. The same reasoning as relied on in Mooneyrequires reversal here.

¶6The motion for rehearing is granted and the judgment is reversed.

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