Calvin Louis Green v. State ( 2012 )

NUMBER 13-12-00146-CR
COURT OF APPEALS
THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS
CORPUS CHRISTI - EDINBURG
CALVIN LOUIS GREEN, Appellant,
v.
THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee.
On appeal from the 24th District Court
of DeWitt County, Texas.
MEMORANDUM OPINION
Before Chief Justice Valdez and Justices Garza and Vela
Memorandum Opinion by Chief Justice Valdez
Appellant, Calvin Louis Green, pleaded guilty pursuant to a plea agreement with
the State to the offense of driving while intoxicated—third or more offense, a third-
degree felony. See TEX. PENAL CODE ANN. § 49.09(b) (West Supp. 2011); see also id. §
49.04 (West 2012). The trial court deferred adjudication, suspended appellant’s ten-
year sentence, and placed him on community supervision for a period of six years.
After finding that appellant had violated three terms of community supervision, the trial
court revoked appellant’s community supervision, adjudicated guilt, sentenced appellant
to ten years’ incarceration, and imposed a $1,000 fine. By one issue, appellant
contends that the trial court abused its discretion by revoking his community
supervision. We affirm.
I. THE EVIDENCE
Mindy Pawlik, a probation officer, testified that she had explained the conditions
of community supervision to appellant. Pawlik stated that appellant understood that as
a condition he was not to commit any crimes. Pawlik recalled explaining to appellant
that he was to pay a fee of sixty dollars per month and that he had to “[p]erform
satisfactorily 250 community service restitution hours on or before July 24 of 2012,” with
a minimum of sixteen hours per month. According to Pawlik, appellant owed sixty-nine
dollars in fees and had not completed any community service restitution hours.
Latroia Herron testified that on August 9, 2011, she gave appellant a ride to the
store in her mother’s vehicle. Herron stated that as she drove the vehicle, appellant hit
her in the face with an open hand and “busted” her lip, which began bleeding. Herron
testified that appellant then pulled her down below the steering wheel by the hair.
According to Herron, she stopped the vehicle and appellant continued hitting her and
kept telling her to shut up. Herron stated that appellant told her that she hurt him and
that he was going to make sure that she did not hurt anybody else. Herron explained
that she attempted to drive the vehicle into town and that appellant, who had pulled out
a knife, told her to turn around. Herron stated that she begged and pleaded with
appellant and told him to consider her children. According to Herron, appellant
responded that she did not care about her children and that he was going to make sure
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that she did not hurt another man. Herron stated that appellant repeatedly hit her as
she continued driving.
Herron testified that when she asked appellant if she could drive home, he cut
her arm with the knife. Herron stated that she was scared and trying to find a way out of
the vehicle. According to Herron, appellant told her that he was “going to mess [her] up
so bad they could not identify [her] body” and that “there was not going to be no coming
back.” Herron stated, “I eased my mama’s car into that ditch on that side of the road
and that’s when it was like a tussle like and I was holding to his shirt saying no, no, and
I could see the knife in his hand. I seen everything go up, and all of the sudden it just
like hit my neck, went down.” According to Herron, when she looked down, she saw
blood “gushing” out of the wound “like a faucet,” and appellant said, “It’s too late. Stop
fighting. Stop fighting. I already cut you.”
Herron stated that she managed to take the knife away from appellant and to exit
the vehicle. Herron was transported to the hospital by a passer-by. Herron testified that
she believed that appellant was trying to kill her. According to Herron, appellant
severed her “small jugular vein in two” and she had to have emergency surgery. 1
Herron stated that the doctors told her that appellant missed the “big jugular vein by a
hair.”
Beatrice Herron, Latroia’s mother, testified that on August 9, 2011, appellant
called her and said, “I cut your daughter.”
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The record reflects that Herron showed the trial court a five-inch scar starting below her ear to
her throat. Herron also showed the trial court a two-inch scar on her arm. According to Herron, the knife
was razor sharp.
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II. STANDARD OF REVIEW AND APPLICABLE LAW
The trial court’s decision to revoke a defendant’s deferred adjudication
community supervision is reviewed under an abuse of discretion standard. Rickels v.
State, 202 S.W.3d 759, 763 (Tex. Crim. App. 2006). At a revocation hearing, the State
bears the burden of proving by a preponderance of the evidence that the defendant
violated the terms and conditions of his community supervision. Cobb v. State, 851
S.W.2d 871, 873 (Tex. Crim. App. 1993). Proof of any one of the alleged violations is
sufficient to support a revocation order. Moore v. State, 605 S.W.2d 924, 926 (Tex.
Crim. App. 1980); Sanchez v. State, 603 S.W.2d 869, 871 (Tex. Crim. App. 1980). At a
revocation hearing, the trial court is the sole judge of the credibility of the witnesses and
the weight to be given their testimony, and we must view the evidence in the light most
favorable to the trial court's ruling. Garrett v. State, 619 S.W.2d 172, 174 (Tex. Crim.
App. 1981); Antwine v. State, 268 S.W.3d 634, 636 (Tex. App.—Eastland 2008, pet.
ref’d); Martinez v. State, 6 S.W.3d 674, 680 (Tex. App.—Corpus Christi 1999, no pet.).
III. DISCUSSION
Appellant contends only that the trial court abused its discretion in finding that he
violated his community supervision by committing the offense of attempted murder.
The State alleged that appellant violated his community supervision by doing the
following: committing the offense of attempted murder; failing to pay his monthly
supervisory fees; and failing to complete court ordered community service restitution
hours. Therefore, we need not address appellant’s arguments regarding whether he
committed the offense of attempted murder because there was evidence presented that
he violated the conditions of community supervision by failing to pay the supervisory
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fees and failing to complete the court ordered community service restitution hours.
Appellant has not challenged those grounds for supporting the trial court’s revocation of
appellant’s community supervision. Because these findings are unchallenged, and any
one finding is sufficient to sustain adjudication, the trial court did not abuse its discretion
in revoking appellant’s community supervision and adjudicating him guilty. See Smith v.
State, 286 S.W.3d 333, 343 (Tex. Crim. App. 2009) (finding that the trial court was
justified in revoking the appellant’s community supervision where trial court found
appellant violated three of four violations alleged, and appellant challenged only one
ground); see also Gobell v. State, 528 S.W.2d 223, 224 (Tex. Crim. App. 1975) (“Since
the other finding upon which probation was revoked is unchallenged, appellant’s
contention, even if correct, would not show an abuse of discretion.”); see also Wiley v.
State, No. 13-11-00130-CR, 2012 Tex. App. LEXIS 279, at *2–4 (Tex. App.—Corpus
Christi Jan. 12, 2012, no pet.) (mem. op., not designated for publication) (concluding
that trial court had not abused its discretion in revoking the appellant’s community
supervision even if the trial court erred in the admission of evidence because the
appellant did not challenge the other alleged violations not affected by trial court’s
error); DeLeon v. State, No. 13-10-00581-CR, 2012 Tex. App. LEXIS 2083, at *10–12
(Tex. App.—Corpus Christi Mar. 15, 2012) (mem. op., not designated for publication)
(overruling the appellant’s claim that the trial court abused its discretion by revoking his
community supervision because the appellant did not challenge all grounds supporting
the trial court’s revocation). We overrule appellant’s sole issue.
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IV. CONCLUSION
We affirm the trial court’s judgment.
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ROGELIO VALDEZ
Chief Justice
Do not Publish.
TEX. R. APP. P. 47.2(b)
Delivered and filed the
26th day of July, 2012.
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