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Ex Parte Gregorio ROMERO, Appellant.

PER CURIAM.

On State's Petition for Discretionary Review from the Fourth Court of Appeals, Kendall County; N. Keith Williams, Judge.
San Juanita Reyna Campos, Attorney at Law, Weslaco, TX, for Appellant. E. Bruce Curry, District Attorney, Lisa C. McMinn, State's Attorney, Austin, for State.


OPINION


PER CURIAM.


Appellant pleaded guilty to aggravated sexual assault. The trial court deferred an adjudication of guilt and placed Appellant on supervision for ten years.

Appellant filed a writ application pursuant to Art. 11.072 alleging that he received ineffective assistance of counsel under Padilla v. Kentucky, 559 U.S. 356, 130 S.Ct. 1473, 176 L.Ed.2d 284 (2010). The trial court denied relief. On appeal, the Court of Appeals reversed, holding that counsel was ineffective under Padilla. Ex parte Romero, 351 S.W.3d 127 (Tex.App.–San Antonio 2011).

The State has filed a petition for discretionary review of this decision. The U.S. Supreme Court recently held that, under Teague v. Lane, 489 U.S. 288, 109 S.Ct. 1060, 103 L.Ed.2d 334 (1989), Padilla does not have retroactive effect. Chaidez v. United States, ––– U.S. ––––, 133 S.Ct. 1103, 185 L.Ed.2d 149 (2013). Today, we adopted that Court's reasoning as a matter of state law in Ex parte De Los Reyes, 392 S.W.3d 675 (Tex.Crim.App.2013).

The Court of Appeals in the instant case did not have the benefit of our opinion in De Los Reyes. Accordingly, we grant the State's petition for discretionary review, vacate the judgment of the Court of Appeals, and remand this case to the Court of Appeals in light of De Los Reyes.

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Ex parte Romero
(Mar 20, 2013)