Court Opinion

ID: 4441963
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2019-09-26 18:19:18.595927+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:04:00.978099
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IN THE
                             TENTH COURT OF APPEALS

                                     No. 10-19-00304-CR

DAMEON LAWS,
                                                                   Appellant
    v.

THE STATE OF TEXAS,
                                                                   Appellee

                               From the 19th District Court
                                McLennan County, Texas
                               Trial Court No. 2009-145-C1

                              MEMORANDUM OPINION

         Dameon Laws was apparently convicted of aggravated assault approximately 10

years ago and remains in prison. In his notice of appeal filed on September 3, 2019, Laws

contends the trial court issued an order on August 26, 20191 which Laws wants to appeal.

1
 Laws filed new notices of appeal to an order purported to be signed on September 10, 2019. We have
docketed those appeals as 10-19-00336-CR and 10-19-00337-CR. Those appeals remain pending and will be
addressed in due course.
The trial court clerk has informed this Court that no action has been taken in the trial

court case since 2016.

        In a document attached to the notice of appeal, Laws seeks to consolidate this

appeal with an appeal he filed at the same time from a conviction in another county.

Laws asserts that he is striving to be a good citizen while in prison, is going to school to

receive a degree from Lee College while in prison, was on the A & B honor roll, was on

the Dean's List for the Summer of 2019, and has worked in the prison system in the

kitchen since 2013. As relief, he asks this Court to reduce his sentence to time served and

reduce court cost and attorney’s fees to a reasonable amount.2

        While we applaud Laws for taking the opportunity to better himself while in

prison, we have no jurisdiction to grant any type of post-conviction relief. See TEX. CODE

CRIM. PROC. ANN. art. 11.05 (listing the courts which have jurisdiction of post-conviction

relief; appellate courts not included). Thus, we have no jurisdiction to grant the relief

Laws requests.

        Accordingly, this appeal is dismissed and all motions which have been filed herein

are dismissed as moot.

        A motion for rehearing may be filed within 15 days after the judgment of this

Court is rendered. See TEX. R. APP. P. 49.1. If Laws desires to have the decision of this

2
 From the document filed with this Court, it appears that some of the cost or attorney’s fees may have been
ordered to be repaid as restitution.

Laws v. State                                                                                       Page 2
Court reviewed by filing a petition for discretionary review, that petition must be filed

with the Court of Criminal Appeals within 30 days after either the day this Court's

judgment was rendered or the day the last timely motion for rehearing was overruled by

this Court. See TEX. R. APP. P. 68.2(a).

                                           TOM GRAY
                                           Chief Justice

Before Chief Justice Gray,
       Justice Davis, and
       Justice Neill
Appeal dismissed
Motions dismissed
Opinion delivered and filed September 25, 2019
Do not publish
[CR25]

Laws v. State                                                                      Page 3