Court Opinion

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In the
              Court of Appeals
Sixth Appellate District of Texas at Texarkana

                   No. 06-24-00011-CR

      EX PARTE LUIS GUSTAVO VENTURA GIL

            On Appeal from the County Court
                Kinney County, Texas
               Trial Court No. 12027CR

      Before Stevens, C.J., van Cleef and Rambin, JJ.
        Memorandum Opinion by Justice Rambin
                                    MEMORANDUM OPINION

        This Court previously reversed the trial court’s denial of Appellant’s pretrial writ of

habeas corpus and remanded the matter to the trial court for an evidentiary hearing.1 Ex parte

Gil, No. 06-23-00215-CR, 2023 WL 8287590 (Tex. App.—Texarkana Dec. 1, 2023, pet. filed)

(mem. op., not designated for publication). Before the issuance of our mandate, and while the

State’s petition for discretionary review was pending before the Texas Court of Criminal

Appeals, the trial court, on January 9, 2024, issued another denial of Appellant’s pretrial writ of

habeas corpus, which is the subject of this appeal.

        Recognizing that the trial court’s action prior to the issuance of our mandate was a

nullity, TEX. R. APP. P. 25.2(g) (“Once the record has been filed in the appellate court, all further

proceedings in the trial court—except as provided otherwise by law or by these rules—will be

suspended until the trial court receives the appellate-court mandate.”), the State filed a motion to

dismiss this appeal for want of jurisdiction. We requested that appellant file a response to the

State’s motion. In that response, appellant conceded that the trial court’s January 9, 2024, order

is void and that this appeal should be dismissed for want of jurisdiction.

1
Originally appealed to the Fourth Court of Appeals, this case was transferred to this Court by the Texas Supreme
Court pursuant to its docket equalization efforts. See TEX. GOV’T CODE ANN. § 73.001 (Supp.).
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       In light of the foregoing, we vacate the trial court’s denial of Appellant’s pretrial writ of

habeas corpus issued on January 9, 2024, grant the State’s motion to dismiss the appeal, and

dismiss this appeal.

                                             Jeff Rambin
                                             Justice

Date Submitted:        March 21, 2024
Date Decided:          March 22, 2024

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