Order entered February 8 , 2023

In The 

### Court of Appeals **Fifth District of Texas at Dallas** No. 05 - 23 - 00026 - CR DONNY RAY GETER , Appellant V. THE STATE OF TEXAS , Appellee On Appeal from the 282nd Ju d icial District Court Dallas County, Texas Trial Court Cause No. F21 - 75021 -S O RDER On January 17, 2023, Official Court Reporter Lisa V. Jackson filed the reporter ’ s record in this appeal. The filing did not , however, include copies of State ’ s Exhibits 43 , 43A, 49, and 53
. Jackson filed with the reporter ’ s record a request in which she describ ed State ’ s E xhibit 43 as a blu

- ray disk of a cel lphone extraction or “ phone dump ” and State ’ s Exhib i t 43A as a co p y of State ’ s Exhibit 43 placed on a flash drive. Acc ording to Jackson, the phone dump recorded in State ’ s Ex hib it 43 A “ inclu des– 2

– PDFs, images, and hyperlinks that take y ou to the Internet to vi ew . ” Jac kson explains she is “ awar e that PDFs should be printed and uploaded in TAMES as a Vol ume; however, the page s are voluminous and bec ause of the hyperlinks and images I will not be able to upload this one exhib it

. ” She requested permission to file the flash drive as physical m edia without uploading its contents into TAMES. On January 23, 2023 , Ja ckson filed with the Court three p hy sical it ems: the blu

- ray dis c labeled as State ’ s Exhibit 43, a flash drive labeled a s State ’ s Exhibit 43A, and a compact disc labeled as State ’ s exhibit 49. The items were accompanied by co ver sheets . The cover shee t for exhibit 49 state s : “ S TATE ’ S EXHIBIT NO. 49 UNABLE TO UPLOAD 1. Animatio n file too large to upload. ” The cover sheets for State ’ s Exhibits 43 and 43A identify the conten ts as a “ phone du mp ” from appellant ’ s phone without providing any further explan ation f or why the items must be submitted as physic al media. Jack son offered no explanation for why State ’ s Exhibit 53 w as not filed. Accor ding to the reporter ’ s record, State ’ s Exhibit 53 is a compact disc w ith recordings of telephone calls to 91 1
. It is the court reporter ’ s d uty to file the reporter ’ s record, including a ll exhibits, in an electronic format through the Tex as Appeals Management and E

filing Sy stem recor ds submission portal ( TAMES)

. See T EX . R. A PP . P. App . C, R. 2 ; Un if. Format Manu al for Tex. Reporter ’ s Recs. § 8 (amended June 28, 201 0),– 3

– https://www.txcourts.gov/media/244178/Uniform

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- 20100701.pdf

. When a n e xhibit exceeds the maximum file size to pass through the TAMES portal, the court reporter m ust separa te the exhibit file into multiple smaller fi les that meet the TAMES p ortal ’ s limits. See Uniform Format Manual at §§ 8. 9, 8.10 ; Off

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. TAMES RSP User Guide 8 ( 2013), https ://rsp.txco urts.gov/training/ TAMES

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. Physical media can be sent to the appellat e court if the appel la te court orders the physical it em filed. See Uniform Format Manuel at §§ 8.9. 8.10
. In this case, Jackson has provide d little information about the exhibits she has n ot uploaded to TAMES. Th e explanation she ha s provided does not explain why the exhibits cannot be broken up into sm aller files and upl oaded to TAMES. Furthermore, the Court did not request or grant permission for the filing of physical media

. Accordi ngly, we ORDER Official Court Reporter Lisa V. Ja ckson to file into TAMES , within THIRTY DAYS , either State ’ s Exhi bit 4 3 or 4 3 A, which ever is easier to u pload , breaking the exhibit up into separate files as needed to upload into TAMES . We further ORDER Ms. Jackson to file into TAMES , within THIRTY DAYS , the recordings in State ’ s Exhibit 5 3
. The Co urt will accept as physical media the comp act disc containing Stat e ’ s Exhibit 49

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– We DIRECT the Clerk to transmit copies of this order to Lisa V. Jackson , official court reporter, 282nd Judicial Dist rict Court; and to counsel for t he parties.

/s/ ROBE RT D. BURNS, III CHIEF JUSTICE