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TULIA, TEXAS -- The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, the highest criminal court in Texas, has upheld Tom Coleman’s conviction for aggravated perjury. 

Coleman is known for the role that he played as the undercover agent in the Tulia drug bust back in 1999. 

In 2005 Coleman was convicted of lying during an evidentiary hearing and sentenced to ten years probation.

His appeal was based on many things but the biggest is whether or not the state had the right to use special prosecutors in Coleman’s trial.

The case went before the 7th Court of Appeals who also upheld the conviction back in November of 2006.

The drug bust resulted in all of the cases against all 46 people arrested being thrown out and a full pardon by the governor of Texas.