Devondrick Jermain Berry v. the State of Texas
CourtTexas Court of Appeals, 9th District (Beaumont)
Date FiledOctober 7, 2026
Docket09-25-00429-CR
StatusPublished
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Full Opinion
In The
Court of Appeals
Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont
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NO. 09-25-00429-CR
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DEVONDRICK JERMAIN BERRY, Appellant
V.
THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee
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On Appeal from the Criminal District Court
Jefferson County, Texas
Trial Cause No. 23DCCR1898
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MEMORANDUM OPINION
In a plea agreement, Appellant, Devondrick Jermain Berry, 1 pleaded guilty to
a lesser included unlawful possession of less than one gram of a controlled
substance, PG 2 >= 1G<4G – LESSER PCS < 1G, a State Jail Felony. See Tex.
Health & Safety Code Ann. § 481.116(b). The trial court found the evidence
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At some places in the record, Appellant’s first name appears as “De
Vondrick.” Based on our review of the entire record and Appellant’s briefing in this
court, we refer to the Appellant’s first name as “Devondrick,” rather than “De
Vondrick.”
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sufficient to find Berry guilty but deferred adjudication and placed Berry on
community supervision for three years. The State subsequently filed a motion to
revoke Berry’s unadjudicated probation. Berry pleaded “true” to two violations of
the conditions of his community supervision. The trial court found three of the
allegations of violations of Berry’s community supervision to be “true,” found Berry
guilty of the “original offense,” 2 revoked Berry’s community supervision and
assessed punishment of one year’s confinement in State Jail.
On appeal, Appellant’s court-appointed attorney filed a brief stating that he
has reviewed the case and, based on his professional evaluation of the record and
applicable law, he concluded that the appeal lacks merit and that there are no
arguable grounds for reversal. See Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738 (1967); High
v. State, 573 S.W.2d 807 (Tex. Crim. App. 1978). We granted an extension of time
for Berry to file a pro se brief, and Berry filed no response.
Upon receiving an Anders brief, this Court must conduct a full examination
of all the proceedings to determine whether the appeal is wholly frivolous. Penson
v. Ohio, 488 U.S. 75, 80 (1988) (citing Anders, 386 U.S. at 744). We have reviewed
the entire record and counsel’s brief, and we have found nothing that would arguably
support an appeal. See Bledsoe v. State, 178 S.W.3d 824, 827-28 (Tex. Crim. App.
The Lesser Included Order of Deferred Adjudication lists the offense as
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POSS CS PG2>=1G<4G-LESSER PCS<1G.
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2005) (“Due to the nature of Anders briefs, by indicating in the opinion that it
considered the issues raised in the briefs and reviewed the record for reversible error
but found none, the court of appeals met the requirements of Texas Rule of Appellate
Procedure 47.1.”). Therefore, we find it unnecessary to order appointment of new
counsel to re-brief the appeal. Cf. Stafford v. State, 813 S.W.2d 503, 511 (Tex. Crim.
App. 1991). 3
That said, we find that the written judgment of conviction in this case contains
non-reversible clerical errors. The trial court’s judgment contains clerical errors
because it incorrectly states that Berry was convicted of “POSS CS PG2>=1G<4G,”
a “3rd Degree Felony” and that Berry pleaded “true” to Counts 1, 2, and 4 of the
motion to revoke, whereas the reporter’s record reflects that he was convicted of the
offense of a lesser included possession of a controlled substance and pleaded “true”
only to Counts 2 and 4. This Court has the authority to modify the trial court’s
judgment to correct clerical errors. See Tex. R. App. P. 43.2(b) (providing that the
court of appeals may “modify the trial court’s judgment and affirm it as modified[]”);
Provost v. State, Nos. 09-20-00210-CR, 09-20-00211-CR, 2021 Tex. App. LEXIS
1302, at **2-3 (Tex. App.—Beaumont Feb. 24, 2021, no pet.) (mem. op., not
designated for publication); Bigley v. State, 865 S.W.2d 26, 27-28 (Tex. Crim. App.
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Berry may challenge our decision in this case by filing a petition for
discretionary review. See Tex. R. App. P. 68.
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1993) (concluding that the court of appeals has the power to reform judgments to
correct clerical errors). Accordingly, we modify the trial court’s judgment to reflect
that Berry was convicted of POSS CS PG2>=1G<4G-LESSER PCS<1G, a State Jail
Felony, and he pleaded “true” to Counts 2 and 4 of the motion to revoke. We affirm
the trial court’s judgment as modified.
AFFIRMED AS MODIFIED.
LEANNE JOHNSON
Justice
Submitted on September 10, 2026
Opinion Delivered October 7, 2026
Do Not Publish
Before Golemon, C.J., Johnson and Wright, JJ.
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