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Affirmed
and Memorandum Opinion filed March 5, 2009.
 
 
In The
 
Fourteenth Court of
Appeals
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NO. 14-08-00313-CR
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JOSHUA PAUL PIERCE, Appellant
 
V.
 
THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee
 

 
On Appeal from the 262nd District
Court
Harris County, Texas
Trial Court Cause No.
1135985
 

 
M E M O R A N D U M   O P I N I O N
Appellant
entered a plea of guilty to the offense of injury to a child.  On March 27,
2008, the trial court sentenced appellant to confinement for seven years in the
Institutional Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.  Appellant
filed a pro se notice of appeal.




Appellant=s appointed counsel filed a brief in
which he concludes the appeal is wholly frivolous and without merit.  The brief
meets the requirements of Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738, 87 S.Ct.
1396 (1967), by presenting a professional evaluation of the record and
demonstrating why there are no arguable grounds to be advanced.  See High v.
State, 573 S.W.2d 807, 811-12 (Tex. Crim. App. 1978).
A copy
of counsel=s brief was delivered to appellant.  Appellant was advised of the right
to examine the appellate record and file a pro se response.  See Stafford v.
State, 813 S.W.2d 503, 510 (Tex. Crim. App. 1991).  As of this date, more
than forty-five days has elapsed and no pro se response has been filed.
We have
carefully reviewed the record and counsel=s brief and agree the appeal is
wholly frivolous and without merit.  Further, we find no reversible error in
the record.  A discussion of the brief would add nothing to the jurisprudence
of the state.  We are not to address the merits of each claim raised in an Anders
brief or a pro se response when we have determined there are no arguable
grounds for review.  See Bledsoe v. State, 178 S.W.3d 824, 827-28 (Tex.
Crim. App. 2005)
Accordingly,
the judgment of the trial court is affirmed.
 
PER CURIAM
 
Panel consists of Chief Justice Hedges and Justices
Anderson and Seymore.  
Do Not Publish C Tex. R. App. P.
47.2(b).

