Court Opinion

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NO. 07-04-0398-CR
                                       07-04-0399-CR

                              IN THE COURT OF APPEALS

                       FOR THE SEVENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS

                                      AT AMARILLO

                                         PANEL A

                                   DECEMBER 6, 2004

                          ______________________________

                        TAMMIE SCHULENBERG, APPELLANT

                                             V.

                          THE STATE OF TEXAS, APPELLEE

                        _________________________________

              FROM THE 114TH DISTRICT COURT OF SMITH COUNTY;

       NO. 241-0612-02, 241-0613-02; HONORABLE CYNTHIA KENT, JUDGE

                         _______________________________

Before JOHNSON, C.J., and REAVIS and CAMPBELL, JJ.

                       ORDER ON ABATEMENT AND REMAND

       Appellant Tammie Schulenberg has given notices of appeal from revocation of

community supervision pursuant to convictions and sentences in causes numbers 241-

0612-02 and 241-0613-02 in the 114th District Court of Smith County, Texas (the trial court),

for forgery. The trial court entered orders directing designation of any portions of the

reporter’s record necessary for appeal be filed with the Court and a copy forwarded to the
court reporter on or before August 12, 2004. Pursuant to transfer of the appeals by the

Texas Supreme Court from the Twelfth Court of Appeals to this court, the clerk of this court

received and filed the trial court clerk’s record in each appeal on August 10, 2004. Prior

to transfer of the appeals, the date for filing of the reporter’s records had been extended

two times. Subsequent to this court’s receipt and docketing of the appeals, the court

reporter has been advised by letters from the appellate clerk that the reporter’s records are

past due. The letters also directed the reporter to appropriately respond in the event the

reporter’s records could not be filed immediately. The court reporter has failed to respond

to any communications from either of the appellate clerks.

       Accordingly, this appeal is abated and the cause is remanded to the trial court. TEX .

R. APP . P. 37.3(a)(2). Upon remand, the judge of the trial court is directed to immediately

cause notice to be given of and to conduct a hearing to determine: (1) whether appellant

desires to prosecute these appeals; (2) if appellant desires to prosecute the appeals,

whether appellant has requested reporter’s records, or designated portions of the reporter’s

records necessary for appellant’s appeals, and if not, what orders should be entered to

assure such requests or designations; (3) if the reporter’s records have been requested or

portions necessary to appellant’s appeals designated, what orders or other actions should

be directed to the court reporter to assure immediate filing of the reporter’s records or such

portions of the records as have been designated by appellant; (4) what orders, if any,

should be entered to assure the filing of appropriate notices and documentation to dismiss

appellant’s appeals if appellant does not desire to prosecute the appeals, or, if appellant

desires to prosecute the appeals, to assure that the appeals will be diligently pursued. The

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trial court is directed to enter any orders that it determines necessary and appropriate to

assure the proper fulfilment of duties by appellant’s attorney, the court reporter, or any

other person necessary for diligent prosecution of appellant’s appeals, or dismissal of the

appeals.

       The trial court is directed to: (1) conduct any necessary hearings; (2) enter any

necessary orders; (3) make and file appropriate findings of fact, conclusions of law and

recommendations, and cause them to be included in supplemental clerk’s records; (4)

cause the hearing proceedings to be transcribed and included in reporter’s records; and

(5) have a record of the proceedings made to the extent any of the proceedings are not

included in the supplemental clerk’s records or the reporter’s records. In the absence of

a request for extension of time from the trial court, the supplemental clerk’s record,

reporter’s record of the hearing and proceedings pursuant to this order, and any additional

proceeding records, including any orders, findings conclusions and recommendations, are

to be sent so as to be received by the clerk of this court not later than February 15, 2005.

       So ordered.

                                                  Per Curiam

Do not publish.

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