Court Opinion

ID: 4687380
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Date Created: 2021-05-17 07:23:29.67176+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:04:40.390209
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IN THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS
                         OF TEXAS
                                        NO. WR-92,542-01

                   EX PARTE REBECCA DANIELLE HULEN, Applicant

                 ON APPLICATION FOR A WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS
                 CAUSE NO. 11,688-A IN THE 46TH DISTRICT COURT
                          FROM WILBARGER COUNTY

       Per curiam.

                                            ORDER

       Applicant was convicted of possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver and

sentenced to twenty years’ imprisonment. The Applicant did not file a direct appeal. Applicant

filed this application for a writ of habeas corpus in the county of conviction, and the district clerk

forwarded it to this Court. See TEX . CODE CRIM . PROC. art. 11.07. She was later released to parole.

       While on parole, Applicant alleges that she was arrested in Montgomery County for

possession of a controlled substance. A parole revocation (a/k/a “blue”) warrant was later executed,

and Applicant is being held in the Montgomery County Jail on the blue warrant. According to

Applicant, through habeas counsel, the new possession of a controlled substance charge has never

been filed, and she is still being held in the county jail pursuant to the blue warrant but has not
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received a parole revocation hearing, although she has repeatedly requested one. See TEX . GOV ’T

CODE 508.282(a)(1)(A)-(B).

        Applicant has alleged facts that, if true, might entitle her to relief. Morrissey v. Brewer, 408

U.S. 471, 471 (1972); Ex parte Cordova, 235 S.W.3d 735 (Tex. Crim. App. 2007). Accordingly,

the record should be developed. The trial court is the appropriate forum for findings of fact. TEX .

CODE CRIM . PROC. art. 11.07, § 3(d). The trial court shall order the Board of Pardons and Paroles’s

Office of the General Counsel to obtain a response from a person with knowledge of relevant facts.

In developing the record, the trial court may use any means set out in Article 11.07, § 3(d). If the

trial court elects to hold a hearing, it shall determine whether Applicant is indigent. If Applicant is

indigent and wants to be represented by counsel, the trial court shall appoint counsel to represent her

at the hearing. See TEX . CODE CRIM . PROC. art. 26.04. If counsel is appointed or retained, the trial

court shall immediately notify this Court of counsel’s name.

        The trial court shall order the Texas Department of Criminal Justice’s Office of the General

Counsel to file an affidavit addressing the issue of whether the Parole Board is timely providing

Applicant with a parole revocation hearing. The trial court shall make findings of fact and

conclusions of law as to Applicant’s claims, and the trial court may make any other findings of fact

and conclusions of law that it deems relevant.

        The trial court shall make findings of fact and conclusions of law within ninety days from

the date of this order. The district clerk shall then immediately forward to this Court the trial court’s

findings and conclusions and the record developed on remand, including, among other things,

affidavits, motions, objections, proposed findings and conclusions, orders, and transcripts from

hearings and depositions. See TEX . R. APP . P. 73.4(b)(4). Any extensions of time must be requested
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by the trial court and obtained from this Court.

Filed:         May 12, 2021
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