Court Opinion

ID: 4095007
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-11-02 19:17:51.903251+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:09:36.931420
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In The

                               Court of Appeals
                    Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont
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                              NO. 09-16-00399-CR
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                          IN RE PAUL R. DESILETS

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                              Original Proceeding
              359th District Court of Montgomery County, Texas
                     Trial Cause No. 08-12-11262-CR (2)
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                         MEMORANDUM OPINION

      Paul R. Desilets petitioned for a writ of mandamus to compel the trial court

to rule on motions that Desilets filed in 2014 in connection with a post-conviction

habeas corpus proceeding. See generally Tex. Code Crim. Proc. Ann. art. 11.07

(West 2015). The appendix to Desilets’s mandamus petition includes documents

that show that the Court of Criminal Appeals denied habeas relief on June 8, 2016.

The mandamus petition relates directly and exclusively to motions filed in

connection with a post-conviction application for a writ of habeas corpus. The

Court of Criminal Appeals possesses exclusive authority to grant relief in a post-

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conviction habeas corpus proceeding where there is a final felony conviction.

Padieu v. Court of Appeals of Tex., Fifth Dist., 392 S.W.3d 115, 117 (Tex. Crim.

App. 2013) (orig. proceeding); In re McAfee, 53 S.W.3d 715, 717 (Tex. App.—

Houston [1st Dist.] 2001, orig. proceeding). Accordingly, we deny the petition for

writ of mandamus.

      PETITION DENIED.

                                                             PER CURIAM

Submitted on November 1, 2016
Opinion Delivered November 2, 2016
Do Not Publish

Before McKeithen, C.J., Kreger and Horton, JJ.

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