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- Title: Reed V. State
- Author : Texas Court of Appeals
- Release Date : January 17, 2003
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 56 KB
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Appellant, Joseph Reed, was indicted for the felony offenses of theft and possession of a controlled substance, enhanced with two prior convictions for felony theft. Appellant entered a plea of guilty to the charges and true to the enhancements. The trial court assessed punishment at 20 years' confinement for the theft offense and 35 years for the possession of a controlled substance. Appellant subsequently appealed, arguing there was sufficient evidence to require a competency inquiry prior to sentencing. See Reed v. State, 14 S.W.3d 438 (Tex. App.CHouston [14th Dist.] 2000, pet. ref'd). A panel of this Court agreed (with one justice dissenting) and remanded the case for a competency inquiry by the judge. See id. On remand, the trial court held an inquiry, found that appellant was competent to stand trial, and re-sentenced appellant. The trial court supplemented the record with a copy of a June 1998 psychiatric evaluation that found appellant was competent to stand trial, but which had not been included in the record of the original appeal. The trial court further noted that appellant refused to comply with the trial court's order to submit to a new evaluation. In this appeal, appellant argues the trial court committed reversible error in failing to conduct either a preliminary inquiry or a jury trial on appellant's competency. We affirm.