Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2023-02-22 08:09:12.760987+00
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Order entered February 17, 2023

                                       In The
                              Court of Appeals
                       Fifth District of Texas at Dallas

                               No. 05-22-01144-CR

                 JONATHAN DEON MIDDLETON, Appellant

                                         V.

                       THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee

               On Appeal from the Criminal District Court No. 1
                            Dallas County, Texas
                    Trial Court Cause No. F20-76983-H

                                      ORDER

      On February 16, 2023, the Dallas County District Clerk filed the clerk’s

record for this appeal. The cover sheet and index page for volume 2 of the clerk’s

record state that the record is “sealed.” However, the record does not contain an

order signed by the trial court sealing volume 2 of clerk’s record and its contents.

      We STRIKE volume 2 of the clerk’s record filed February 16, 2023.
         We ORDER the trial court to determine whether any of the documents in

volume 2 of the reporter’s record contain sensitive or confidential data and should

be subject to a sealing order. The trial court shall identify which documents, if

any, should be subject to a sealing order; the trial court shall sign a sealing order

sealing those documents the trial court found should be subject to a sealing order;

and the trial court shall notify the district clerk of the sealing order or that no

documents are subject to a sealing order within THIRTY DAYS of the date of this

order.

         If the trial court determines that none of the documents should be subject to

a sealing order, then the district clerk shall transmit volume 2 of the clerk’s record

to this Court in an unsealed volume of the clerk’s record without a sealing order. If

the trial court determines that some or all of the documents should be subject to a

sealing order, then the district clerk shall transmit those documents in a sealed

volume of the clerk’s record to this Court with the sealing order as the first

document in the sealed volume of the clerk’s record; and the district clerk shall

transmit any remaining unsealed documents in a separate unsealed volume of the

clerk’s record without a sealing order. See TEX. R. APP. P. 9.10(g). We ORDER

Felicia Pitre, Dallas County District Clerk, to file the sealed and/or unsealed

volumes of the clerk’s record with this Court within FIFTEEN DAYS of receiving
notice from the trial court of which documents, if any, are subject to a sealing order

and receiving any applicable sealing order from the trial court.

      Appellant’s brief shall be due THIRTY DAYS after the sealed and/or

unsealed volume 2 of the clerk’s record is received in this Court.

      We DIRECT the Clerk to send copies of this order to the Honorable Tina

Yoo Clinton, Presiding Judge, Criminal District Court No. 1, Dallas County;

Felicia Pitre, Dallas County District Clerk; and to counsel for all parties.

      This appeal is ABATED to allow the trial court to comply with the above

order. This appeal shall be reinstated when the record transmitted by the trial court

is received or at such other time as the Court deems proper.

                                               /s/   ROBERT D. BURNS, III
                                                     CHIEF JUSTICE