Court Opinion

ID: 4994847
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2021-09-27 07:22:30.111884+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:15:27.429466
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NUMBER 13-20-00478-CR

                            COURT OF APPEALS

                   THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS

                     CORPUS CHRISTI – EDINBURG

____________________________________________________________

JAKE CISNEROS,                                                            Appellant,

                                          v.

THE STATE OF TEXAS,                                 Appellee.
____________________________________________________________

             On appeal from the 214th District Court
                   of Nueces County, Texas.
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                         MEMORANDUM OPINION
            Before Justices Benavides, Longoria, and Tijerina
              Memorandum Opinion by Justice Benavides

      This cause is before the Court on appellant’s motion to withdraw his appeal which

we now construe as a motion to dismiss, as contemplated by Texas Rule of Appellate

Procedure 42.2(a). See TEX. R. APP. P. 42.2(a).

      On December 23, 2020, this matter was abated to the trial court to determine
whether appellant had a right to appeal. On March 15, 2021, and June 21, 2021, this

Court issued supplemental orders of abatement requesting the trial court to determine

whether appellant had abandoned the appeal.

      Appellant’s counsel subsequently filed appellant’s motion to dismiss with an

attached affidavit signed by appellant. In the signed attachment, appellant states that he

waives his right to appeal, whether limited or not. We find the motion and attachment

together meet the requirement of Texas Rule of Appellate Procedure 42.2(a) that

appellant and his attorney must sign a written motion to dismiss the appeal. See id.

      Accordingly, we hereby reinstate the case, and, without passing on the merits of

the case, grant the motion to dismiss and dismiss the appeal.

                                                                     GINA BENAVIDES
                                                                     Justice

Do not publish.
TEX. R. APP. P. 47.2(b).

Delivered and filed on the
23rd day of September, 2021.

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