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in Re: Joe Trampas Benavides
05-15-00341-CV
| Tex. App. | Mar 25, 2015
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*1 DISMISS and Opinion Filed March 25, 2015.

S In The Court of Appeals Fifth District of Texas at Dallas No. 05-15-00341-CV IN RE JOE TRAMPAS BENAVIDES, Relator Original Proceeding from the 363rd Judicial District Court Dallas County, Texas Trial Court Cause No. F99-21709-MW MEMORANDUM OPINION Before Justices Bridges, Stoddart, and Whitehill Opinion by Justice Stoddart

Relator filed this petition for writ of mandamus requesting that the Court order the trial court to enforce his plea agreement. A post-conviction petition for writ of mandamus premised on failure to specifically enforce a plea agreement is an improper collateral attack on the conviction. See In re Malone, No. 05-14-01458-CV, 2014 WL 6779279, at *2 (Tex. App.— Dallas Dec. 2, 2014, orig. proceeding) (mem. op.) (concluding Court lacked jurisdiction over complaint that trial court had failed to specifically enforce his plea agreement); In re Jackson, No. 05–14–00988–CV, 2014 WL 3962822, at *1 (Tex. App.—Dallas Aug. 14, 2014, orig. proceeding) (mem. op.) (same)

The only proper means of collaterally attacking confinement pursuant to a final felony conviction is via petition for writ of habeas corpus under article 11.07 of the code of criminal procedure. T EX . C ODE C RIM . P ROC . A NN . art. 11.07, § 5 (West Supp. 2014) (“After conviction the procedure outlined in this Act shall be exclusive and any other proceeding shall be void and *2 of no force and effect in discharging the prisoner.”). This Court has no jurisdiction over complaints that should be raised by post-conviction habeas corpus proceedings brought under article 11.07. See T EX . C ODE C RIM . P. A NN . arts. 11.05, 11.07 (West 2005 & Supp. 2014); see also Ater v. Eighth Court of Appeals , 802 S.W.2d 241, 243 (Tex. Crim. App. 1991) (orig. proceeding) (in granting writ of mandamus to vacate judgment of conviction, court of appeals usurped exclusive authority of court of criminal appeals to grant post-conviction relief).

We DISMISS the petition for want of jurisdiction.

/ Craig Stoddart/ CRAIG STODDART JUSTICE 150341F.P05

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Case Details

Case Name: in Re: Joe Trampas Benavides
Court Name: Court of Appeals of Texas
Date Published: Mar 25, 2015
Docket Number: 05-15-00341-CV
Court Abbreviation: Tex. App.
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