Court Opinion

ID: 9384820
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-04-05 06:07:09.525105+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:17:56.729092
License: Public Domain

DISMISSED and Opinion Filed March 29, 2023

                                   S  In The
                            Court of Appeals
                     Fifth District of Texas at Dallas
                               No. 05-23-00114-CV

                     IN RE JAMES DRAUCKER, Relator

           Original Proceeding from the County Court at Law No. 1
                           Rockwall County, Texas
                     Trial Court Cause No. WR1-22-0006

                        MEMORANDUM OPINION
                Before Justices Pedersen, III, Smith, and Kennedy
                           Opinion by Justice Kennedy
      In this original proceeding, James Draucker has filed three petitions seeking

original habeas relief from this Court in connection with his pending extradition to

the State of Pennsylvania. Relator has also filed a motion seeking appointment of

counsel. In a previous proceeding, the Court affirmed the trial court’s order denying

habeas relief on relator’s extradition. See Ex parte Draucker, No. 05-22-00615-CR,

2022 WL 6935605 (Tex. App.—Dallas Oct. 12, 2022, pet. ref’d) (mem. op., not

designated for publication). The Court issued its mandate on the extradition appeal

on February 15, 2023.

      This Court does not have original jurisdiction to consider petitions seeking

habeas relief generated in connection with criminal proceedings. See TEX. CODE
CRIM. PROC. ANN. art. 11.05; TEX. GOV’T CODE ANN. § 22.221(d); In re Spriggs, 528

S.W.3d 234, 236 (Tex. App.—Amarillo 2017, orig. proceeding); In re Ayers, 515

S.W.3d 356, 356–57 (Tex. App.—Houston [14th Dist.] 2016, orig. proceeding) (per

curiam); see also In re Thomas, 05-14-01320-CV, 2014 WL 6546580, at *1 (Tex.

App.—Dallas Oct. 23, 2014, orig. proceeding) (mem. op.).

      Accordingly, we deny the motion seeking appointment of counsel, and we

dismiss the petitions for want of jurisdiction.

                                            /Nancy Kennedy/
                                            NANCY KENNEDY
                                            JUSTICE

230114F.P05

                                         –2–