Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2023-08-24 08:18:58.447935+00
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In The
                                Court of Appeals
                       Seventh District of Texas at Amarillo

                                       No. 07-22-00368-CR
                                       No. 07-22-00369-CR

                              PABLO OLIVAREZ, APPELLANT

                                                  V.

                            THE STATE OF TEXAS, APPELLEE

                          On Appeal from the 287th District Court
                                    Bailey County, Texas
            Trial Court Nos. 3178 & 3268, Honorable Gordon H. Green, Presiding

                                        August 23, 2023
                     ORDER OF ABATEMENT AND REMAND
                      Before PARKER and DOSS and YARBROUGH, JJ.

       Appellant, Pablo Olivarez, appeals two convictions for assault on a peace officer1

and concurrent sentences of twelve- and eighteen-years’ confinement. We remand the

appeals to the trial court for further proceedings.

       1 See TEX. PENAL CODE ANN. § 22.01(b-2).
        The appellate record and Appellant’s brief have been filed. Appellant’s first issue

concerns whether “[t]he record is void of any Faretta warnings prior to [Appellant] waiving

his right to counsel creating reversible error.” The State’s brief was due August 2, 2023,

but was not filed. On August 14, 2023, we issued a letter submitting the appeals for

consideration without oral argument on August 21. See TEX. R. APP. P. 39.1, 39.8. On

August 16, 2023, the State filed an unopposed motion for an extension of time to file a

brief and obtain a supplemental reporter’s record. According to the motion, the State

requested a supplemental record “of the first jury trial of cause number 3178 held on June

15, 2022, and prior hearings held between the dates of May 20,2022 to October 29, 2022,”

because “[t]he transcript of these hearings and jury trials are necessary to address the

issues presented in Appellant’s brief in regard to Appellant waiving his right to counsel.”

        The court reporter has since notified the Court that she is unable to locate the

requested portions of the record.2 On August 21, 2023, the State filed a brief reiterating

that a supplemental record has been requested but not filed. Because the unopposed

request for a supplemental reporter’s record has yet to be resolved, we withdraw our

submission of the appeals, abate the causes, and remand the appeals to the trial court to

determine whether the portions of the supplemental reporter’s record requested by the

State have been lost or destroyed.                See TEX. R. APP. P. 34.6(f) (outlining the

circumstances in which an appellant is entitled to a new trial if the reporter’s record is lost

or destroyed); Mendoza v. State, No. 07-14-00034-CR, 2014 Tex. App. LEXIS 6485, at

        2 The current court reporter, Ms. Debra Smith, was appointed after the death of the official court

reporter, Clay LeMaster.

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*2–3 (Tex. App.—Amarillo June 16, 2014, no pet.) (per curiam) (remanding appeal for

findings pursuant to Rule 34.6(f)).

       Upon remand, the trial court shall conduct a hearing to determine the following:

              (1)    if, without Appellant’s fault, a significant portion of the court reporter’s

                     notes and records has been lost or destroyed or, if the proceedings

                     were electronically recorded, if a significant portion of the recording

                     is inaudible;

              (2)    if so, whether the lost, destroyed, or inaudible portion of the reporter’s

                     record is necessary to the resolution of the appeals; and

              (3)    whether the lost, destroyed, or inaudible portion of the reporter’s

                     record can be replaced by agreement of the parties. See TEX. R.

                     APP. P. 34.6(f).

       The trial court is directed to enter findings of fact on the aforementioned matters

and include its findings in a supplemental record to be filed with this Court by September

22, 2023.

       It is so ordered.

                                                          Per Curiam

Do not publish.

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