Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2024-01-28 10:17:21.7464+00
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Dismissed and Memorandum Opinion filed January 18, 2024

                                      In The

                    Fourteenth Court of Appeals

                              NO. 14-23-00838-CR

                       EX PARTE JOHN D. BERNARD

                   On Appeal from the 185th District Court
                           Harris County, Texas
                       Trial Court Cause No. 1835479

                         MEMORANDUM OPINION

      This is an appeal from the denial of appellant’s application for writ of habeas
corpus. On December 13, 2023, appellant filed a motion to dismiss because he
signed a plea agreement and the trial court signed a judgment of conviction.
Appellant has since been released from custody.

      The issues regarding appellant’s pre-trial habeas restraint have been
rendered moot by entry of his plea of guilty to the underlying criminal offense.
Saucedo v. State, 795 S.W.2d 8, 9 (Tex. App.—Houston [14th Dist.] 1990, no
writ). The longstanding rule in Texas regarding habeas corpus is that “where the
premise of a habeas corpus application is destroyed by subsequent developments,
the legal issues raised thereunder are rendered moot.” Id. (citing Ex parte Branch,
553 S.W.2d 380 (Tex. Crim. App. 1997)).

      Accordingly, we grant appellant’s motion and dismiss the appeal as moot.

                                 PER CURIAM

Panel Consists of Chief Justice Christopher and Justices Wise and Jewell.
Do Not Publish — Tex. R. App. P. 47.2(b)

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