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Date Created: 2022-09-06 12:13:19.220186+00
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Fourth Court of Appeals
                                    San Antonio, Texas
                                          August 31, 2022

                                       No. 04-22-00537-CR

                           EX PARTE Erick Vioney Arana ARRIOLA

                          From the County Court, Kinney County, Texas
                                    Trial Court No. 10460CR
                            Honorable Dennis Powell, Judge Presiding

                                          ORDER
        This is an appeal of the trial court’s ruling on a pre-trial writ of habeas corpus. Texas
Rule of Appellate Procedure 25.2 provides that in a criminal appeal where the defendant is the
appellant, “[t]he trial court shall enter a certification of the defendant’s right of appeal each time
it enters a judgment of guilt or other appealable order.” TEX. R. APP. P. 25.2(a)(2). Rule 25.2
further provides, “If the defendant is the appellant, the record must include the trial court’s
certification of the defendant’s right of appeal under Rule 25.2(a)(2),” and cautions that “[t]he
appeal must be dismissed if a certification that shows the defendant has the right of appeal has
not been made part of the record under these rules.” Id. R. 25.2(d). An order denying a pre-trial
application for writ of habeas corpus is an appealable order. See Greenwell v. Court of Appeals
for the Thirteenth Judicial Dist., 159 S.W.3d 645, 650 (Tex. Crim. App. 2005); Ex parte
Matthews, 452 S.W.3d 8, 12 (Tex. App.—San Antonio 2014, no pet.).

        On August 16, 2022, the trial court signed a certification of the defendant’s right of
appeal. In the section of the form certifying whether this matter is appealable, the trial court
certified the following statement:

        After reviewing the clerk’s record, we do not see any indication that the appellant waived
his right of appeal. Accordingly, the trial court’s certification of defendant’s right of appeal
appears to be defective. See Dears v. State, 154 S.W.3d 610, 613–14 (Tex. Crim. App. 2005);
Sanchez v. State, 109 S.W.3d 760, 761 (Tex. App.—San Antonio 2003, no pet.). We therefore
ORDER the trial court to amend the certification and the district clerk to file a supplemental
clerk’s record containing the amended certification by September 20, 2022. TEX. R. APP. P.
37.2; Sanchez, 109 S.W.3d at 761.
                                              _________________________________
                                              Beth Watkins, Justice

       IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said
court on this 31st day of August, 2022.

                                              ___________________________________
                                              MICHAEL A. CRUZ, Clerk of Court