Court Opinion

ID: 3100650
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2015-10-16 05:05:12.656787+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:33:08.698961
License: Public Domain

NO. 07-12-00076-CR

                             IN THE COURT OF APPEALS

                      FOR THE SEVENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS

                                     AT AMARILLO

                                        PANEL A

                                      MAY 14, 2012

                         JAIME FIERRO REYES, APPELLANT

                                            v.

                          THE STATE OF TEXAS, APPELLEE

          FROM THE 222ND DISTRICT COURT OF DEAF SMITH COUNTY;

             NO. CR-11B-019; HONORABLE ROLAND D. SAUL, JUDGE

Before CAMPBELL and HANCOCK and PIRTLE, JJ.

                                 ABATE AND REMAND

       On February 6, 2012, appellant Jaime Fierro Reyes filed a notice of appeal from

his conviction for possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance and sentence

confining him in prison. By written request, the clerk and reporter each sought until April

28, 2012, to file their respective portions of the record on the ground that appellant had

not paid or made arrangements to pay for the record. According to the trial court clerk’s

information form filed in this court, appellant was not declared indigent and is

represented by retained counsel on appeal.
       By letter, we notified appellant’s counsel of appellant’s payment obligations and

directed counsel to file a writing by a specified date with the clerk of this court indicating

acceptable arrangements were made with the clerk and reporter. We directed the clerk

and reporter to file a status report if the record was not filed by April 28, 2012.

Appellant’s counsel made no response to the court’s directive. Status reports from the

reporter and clerk, filed May 4 and 7 respectively, indicate appellant’s counsel has not

paid or made arrangements to pay for the record.

       Accordingly, we now abate this appeal and remand the cause to the trial court.

See Tex. R. App. P. 37.3(a)(2). On remand, the judge of the trial court is directed to

immediately cause notice to be given of and to conduct a hearing to determine: (1)

whether appellant desires to prosecute this appeal; (2) if appellant desires to prosecute

this appeal, whether appellant is indigent; (3) if appellant desires to prosecute this

appeal and is indigent, whether he is entitled to have the appellate record furnished

without charge; (4) whether present counsel for appellant has abandoned the appeal;

(5) if appellant desires to prosecute this appeal and is indigent, whether appellant’s

present counsel should be replaced with appointed counsel; and (6) what orders, if any,

should be entered to assure the filing of appropriate notices and documentation to

dismiss appellant’s appeal if appellant does not desire to prosecute this appeal or, if

appellant desires to prosecute this appeal, to assure that the appeal will be diligently

pursued.

       The trial court is directed to: (1) conduct any necessary hearings; (2) make and

file appropriate findings of fact, conclusions of law, recommendations and orders, and

                                              2
cause them to be included in a supplemental clerk’s record; (3) cause any live hearing,

if conducted, to be transcribed and included in a supplemental reporter’s record; (4)

have a record of the proceedings made to the extent any of the proceedings are not

included in the supplemental clerk’s record or the supplemental reporter’s record; and

(5) cause the records of the proceedings to be sent to this court. In the absence of a

request for extension of time from the trial court, the supplemental clerk’s record,

supplemental reporter’s record, if any, and any additional proceeding records, including

any orders, findings, conclusions, and recommendations, are to be sent so as to be

received by the clerk of this court not later than June 14, 2012.

                                                               Per Curiam

Do not publish.

                                             3