Court Opinion

ID: 2823318
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2015-07-31 11:20:43.270328+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:26:17.697624
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COURT OF APPEALS
                          SECOND DISTRICT OF TEXAS
                               FORT WORTH

                              NO. 02-15-00146-CR

EX PARTE GARY DON TAYLOR

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          FROM THE 371ST DISTRICT COURT OF TARRANT COUNTY
                TRIAL COURT NO. C-371-009717-1201358-A

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                         MEMORANDUM OPINION 1

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      Appellant is attempting to appeal from the court of criminal appeals’s 2013

denial of his postconviction application for writ of habeas corpus. See Tex. Code

Crim. Proc. Ann. art. 11.07 (West 2015). Appellant has not responded to this

court’s May 14, 2015 letter questioning our jurisdiction over such an attempted

appeal, nor have we found any authority allowing such an appeal. See, e.g., id.

§ 5 (“After conviction the procedure outlined in this Act shall be exclusive and any

other proceeding shall be void and of no force and effect in discharging the

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       See Tex. R. App. P. 47.4.
prisoner.”); Ater v. Eighth Court of Appeals, 802 S.W.2d 241, 243 (Tex. Crim.

App. 1991) (orig. proceeding) (holding that court of appeals usurped court of

criminal appeals’s exclusive authority to grant habeas relief from final felony

conviction); cf. Padieu v. Court of Appeals of Tex., Fifth Dist., 392 S.W.3d 115,

117–18 (Tex. Crim. App. 2013) (orig. proceeding) (contrasting court of appeals’s

authority to rule on matters potentially related to forthcoming, but not pending,

11.07 application with the court of criminal appeals’s exclusive jurisdiction to

grant postconviction relief).   Accordingly, we dismiss the appeal for want of

jurisdiction.

                                                 PER CURIAM

PANEL: LIVINGSTON, C.J.; DAUPHINOT and GARDNER, JJ.

DO NOT PUBLISH
Tex. R. App. P. 47.2(b)

DELIVERED: July 30, 2015

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