Court Opinion

ID: 9368611
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Date Created: 2023-02-06 07:08:05.50576+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:16:09.357130
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COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE
                           FIRST DISTRICT OF TEXAS AT HOUSTON

                                            ORDER

Appellate case name:           Jason David Sheedy v. Bruce Fredrick and Cynthia Tilley
Appellate case number:         01-22-00663-CV
Trial court case number:       20-DCV-277933
Trial court:                   458th District Court of Fort Bend County

        Appellant, Jason David Sheedy, incarcerated and proceeding pro se, filed a notice
of appeal from the trial court’s August 23, 2022 ruling granting the amended motion to
dismiss of appellees Bruce Frederick and Cynthia Tilley. On January 23, 2023, appellant,
filed two documents with this Court. First, appellant filed a letter-motion for access to the
appellate record, stating that he received a letter from the Clerk of this Court notifying him
that the reporter’s record was filed on January 10, 2023. However, appellant states, he “did
not receive a copy for purposes of appeal,” and requests that the Clerk of this Court “send
[him] a copy,” as “it is needed for appeal.”
        Appellant’s letter-motion for access to the appellate record is granted. The Clerk
of this Court is directed to send a paper copy of the appellate record, to appellant, at no
cost to appellant, at the address provided in his letter-motion:
       Jason Sheedy, #1360261
       Jester 3 Unit
       3 Jester Road
       Richmond, Texas 77406-8544
        Appellant also filed a “Motion Directing the [Trial Court] Clerk to Supplement
Appellate Record.” In this motion, appellant states that the clerk’s record was filed on
November 16, 2022. However, since that “date, appellant has filed other motions with the
trial court in an attempt to secure the [trial] court’s findings of fact and conclusions of law
from the dismissal on August 23, 2022.” Appellant requests that a supplemental clerk’s
record be filed because these “additional records . . . are necessary, because these
documents will be part of the appeal.”
      Accordingly, appellant requests that this Court direct “the trial court clerk to
supplement the record with all records after November 16, 2022.” Appellant’s motion is
granted. See TEX. R. APP. P. 34.5(c)(1). The trial court clerk is directed to file a
supplemental clerk’s record including any documents omitted from the clerk’s record, filed
November 16, 2023. If the omitted items requested by appellant are not part of the trial
court’s case file, the trial court clerk is directed to file a supplemental clerk’s record
containing a certified statement that the omitted item is not a part of the trial court’s case
file. Any supplemental clerk’s record is due within twenty days of the date of this order.
        Appellant has also filed a “Notice of Indigence to the Court,” requesting that he be
permitted to proceed on appeal without payment of costs. The clerk’s record includes a
“Declaration of Inability to Pay Court Costs,” filed with the trial court on October 23, 2020.
See TEX. R. CIV. P. 145(a), (b), (d); see also TEX. R. CIV. P. 502.3. Further, the record filed
in this Court does not reflect that any motion to require appellant to pay costs or any contest
to appellant’s filed declaration of inability to pay court costs has been filed by any party.
See TEX. R. CIV. P. 145(f); TEX. R. APP. P. 20.1(b).
      Accordingly, the Clerk of this Court is directed to make an entry in this Court’s
records that appellant is allowed to proceed on appeal without payment of costs. See
TEX. R. CIV. P. 145(a); TEX. R. APP. P. 20.1.
       It is so ORDERED.

Judge’s signature: ______/s/ Amparo Guerra________
                    Acting individually  Acting for the Court

Date: __January 31, 2023____