Opinion

in Re Robert Bernard Miles

Court
Texas Court of Appeals, 1st District (Houston)
Filed
Dec 1, 2011
Status
Published
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The opinion

Opinion issued December

1, 2011

In The

Court of

Appeals

For The

First District

of Texas

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NO. 01-11-00965-CR

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In

re ROBERT B. MILES, Relator

Original Proceeding on

Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus

MEMORANDUM OPINION

Relator, Robert B. Miles, has filed a

pro se petition for writ of habeas corpus seeking relief from his incarceration

for the first-degree felony offense of aggravated robbery. See Tex. Penal Code Ann . § 29.03(a)(2), (b)

(Vernon 2011). In his petition, Miles states that he was convicted of the offense

of aggravated robbery on January 29, 1990 and sentenced to 15 years in

prison. He avers that he was paroled on

September 6, 2000. He asserts that the

Board of Pardons and Paroles revoked his parole on October 12, 2007 because he

had violated conditions placed on him related to a juvenile adjudication for a sex

offense. Miles states that he was

returned to prison after his parole was revoked. Miles asserts that the Board of Board of

Pardons and Paroles’ decision to revoke his parole based on requirements

stemming from his juvenile adjudication violates a number of his constitutional

rights, including his right to due process.

To

the extent a parole decision may implicate the due process rights of a

convicted felon, the remedy is through a post-conviction application for writ

of habeas corpus filed under article 11.07 of the Code of Criminal Procedure. See Tex. Code Crim. Proc. Ann . art. 11.07 (Vernon

Supp. 2011); Board of Pardons & Paroles

ex rel. Keene v. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Dist ., 910 S.W.2d 481, 484

(Tex. Crim. App. 1995). Intermediate

courts of appeals have no jurisdiction over post-conviction writs of habeas

corpus in felony cases. See Ex parte Alexander , 685 S.W.2d 57,

60 (Tex. Crim. App. 1985); Ex parte

Martinez , 175 S.W.3d 510 , 512–13 (Tex. App. —T exarkana 2005, orig. proceeding); see also Tex. Code Crim. Proc. Ann . art. 11.07, § 3 (post-conviction

applications for writs of habeas corpus, for felony cases in which death

penalty was not assessed, must be filed in court of original conviction and

made returnable to court of criminal appeals). The Court of Criminal Appeals has exclusive

jurisdiction to review the merits of a post-conviction application for habeas

relief under article 11.07. See Tex.

Code Crim. Proc. Ann . art. 11.07, § 5; Keene , 910 S.W.2d at 484 .

We

dismiss Miles’s petition for post-conviction writ of habeas corpus for lack of

jurisdiction.

PER CURIAM

Panel consists of Justices Keyes, Higley, and Massengale.

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