Court Opinion

ID: 4710152
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2021-08-10 09:24:17.718412+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:07:01.785122
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TEXAS COURT OF APPEALS, THIRD DISTRICT, AT AUSTIN

                                       NO. 03-21-00267-CR

                               Ex parte Abraham Reyes-Martinez

                FROM THE 428TH DISTRICT COURT OF HAYS COUNTY
      NO. CR-21-0871-A, THE HONORABLE WILLIAM R. HENRY, JUDGE PRESIDING

                             MEMORANDUM OPINION

               Abraham Reyes-Martinez has filed a motion to dismiss his appeal of the trial

court’s order denying habeas corpus relief. In the motion, he states that his counsel mistakenly

forwarded two notices of appeal to this Court and that he intends to move forward under cause

No. 03-21-00268-CR. The motion is not signed by appellant as required by Texas Rule of

Appellate Procedure 42.2(a). However, the notice of appeal in cause No. 03-21-00268-CR refers

to the same trial court order as the notice here, and appellant has filed a brief in that case.1 Under

these circumstances, we suspend the operation of Rule 42.2(a) to the extent it requires

Appellant’s signature. See Tex. R. App. P. 2 (permitting appellate courts to “suspend a rule’s

operation in a particular case and order a different procedure”); see also Terry v. State,

No. 03-14-00555-CR, 2016 WL 4506154, at *1 (Tex. App.—Austin Aug. 25, 2016, no pet.)

(mem. op., not designated for publication) (applying Rule 2 to suspend Rule 42.2(a)’s signature

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           We take judicial notice of the record in cause No. 03-21-00268-CR. See Fletcher
v. State, 214 S.W.3d 5, 7 (Tex. Crim. App. 2007) (stating general rule that “an appellate court
may take judicial notice of its own records in the same or related proceedings involving same or
nearly same parties”).
requirement when record showed that appellant did not wish to appeal). We grant appellant’s

motion and dismiss the appeal.

                                            __________________________________________
                                            Edward Smith, Justice

Before Justices Goodwin, Baker, and Smith

Dismissed on Appellant’s Motion

Filed: August 6, 2021

Do Not Publish

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