Court Opinion

ID: 4465582
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2019-12-19 04:15:53.893242+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:53:44.019540
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In The

                                 Court of Appeals

                     Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont

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                               NO. 09-19-00446-CR
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                     IN RE JOSEPH BERNARD COOPER

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                          Original Proceeding
               258th District Court of Polk County, Texas
                         Trial Cause No. 23233
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                           MEMORANDUM OPINION

      Pro se relator Joseph Bernard Cooper filed a petition for writ of mandamus,

in which he asks this Court to compel the district clerk to make materials, which he

asserts are discoverable, available for inspection or to transmit the materials to

Cooper.

      The district clerk is not a person against whom we may issue a writ of

mandamus other than to enforce our jurisdiction. See Tex. Gov’t Code Ann. §

22.221(a), (b). Cooper has not shown that issuance of a writ against the district clerk

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is necessary to enforce our jurisdiction. See id.; see also In re Pennington, No. 09-

08-370-CV, 2008 WL 4425521, at *1 (Tex. App.—Beaumont Oct. 2, 2008, orig.

proceeding) (mem. op.). Cooper has not demonstrated that he is entitled to

mandamus relief from this Court. Accordingly, we deny the petition for writ of

mandamus.

      PETITION DENIED.

                                                          PER CURIAM

Submitted on December 17, 2019
Opinion Delivered December, 18, 2019
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Before McKeithen, C.J., Kreger and Horton, JJ.

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