Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2023-01-16 09:07:59.839258+00
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In the
        Court of Appeals
Second Appellate District of Texas
         at Fort Worth
     ___________________________

          No. 02-22-00256-CR
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  EX PARTE FREDDIE PILAR BUSTOS

  On Appeal from the 372nd District Court
            Tarrant County, Texas
 Trial Court No. C-372-W012048-1472251-A

  Before Birdwell, Bassel, and Womack, JJ.
    Per Curiam Memorandum Opinion
                           MEMORANDUM OPINION

      On April 23, 2020, this court affirmed Appellant Freddie Pilar Bustos’s

conviction for aggravated assault of a family member with a deadly weapon. See

generally Bustos v. State, No. 02-19-00028-CR, 2020 WL 1949027 (Tex. App.—Fort

Worth Apr. 23, 2020, no pet.) (mem. op., not designated for publication), habeas corpus

granted in part sub nom. Ex parte Bustos, No. WR-93,657-01, 2022 WL 1100356, at *1

(Tex. Crim. App. Apr. 13, 2022) (not designated for publication). Bustos subsequently

filed an Article 11.07 application for a post-conviction writ of habeas corpus, see Tex.

Code Crim. Proc. Ann. art. 11.07, alleging, among other things, that he was denied his

right to file a petition for discretionary review by his appellate counsel, and the trial

court agreed.

      Bustos now attempts to appeal the trial court’s “Order Adopting Actions of

Magistrate and Order of Transmittal,” signed March 23, 2022, which recommended

that the Court of Criminal Appeals grant Bustos an out-of-time petition for

discretionary review and dismissed Bustos’s other grounds as premature. However, we

have no jurisdiction over matters relating to post-conviction applications under

Article 11.07. See id.; Ater v. Eighth Court of Appeals, 802 S.W.2d 241, 243 (Tex. Crim.

App. 1991) (orig. proceeding) (stating that the Court of Criminal Appeals is the “only

court with jurisdiction in final post-conviction felony proceedings”); Leyhe v. State,

No. 02-20-00154-CR, 2021 WL 126369, at *1 (Tex. App.—Fort Worth Jan. 14, 2021,

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no pet.) (mem. op., not designated for publication) (“We do not have jurisdiction over

matters related to post[-]conviction relief from an otherwise final felony conviction.”).

      We notified Bustos of our concern that we lack jurisdiction over his appeal and

stated that unless he filed a response showing grounds for continuing the appeal, we

would dismiss it. See Tex. R. App. P. 44.3. We received no response from Bustos.

Therefore, we dismiss the appeal for want of jurisdiction. See Tex. R. App. P. 43.2(f).1

                                                      Per Curiam

Do Not Publish
Tex. R. App. P. 47.2(b)

Delivered: January 12, 2023

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       Although the Court of Criminal Appeals granted Bustos relief to file an out-
of-time petition for discretionary review, he did not do so within thirty days of the
Court of Criminal Appeals’s mandate. See Ex parte Bustos, 2022 WL 1100356, at *1.
Rather, he filed this attempted appeal six months later.

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