Court Opinion

ID: 4043716
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-09-28 23:26:31.226302+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:29:45.981472
License: Public Domain

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M/ ¢137 S.W.3d 58, 62 (Tex. Crim. App. 2004).

2. Subject to certain exceptions, a parole panel shall order the release of an
inmate who is not on parole to mandatory supervision when the actual
calendar time the inmate has served, plus any accrued good conduct time,
equals the term to which the inmate was sentenced TEX. CODE CRIM. PROC.
art. 42.18, §8(c) (1995).

3. As of September l, 1995, the offense of sexual assault was an offense not
eligible for mandatory supervision release. TEX. CODE CRIM. PROC.` art.
42.18, §8(0)(4) (1995).

4. Therefore, the applicant is not eligible for mandatory supervision release in the
primary case because the applicant committed the offense of sexual assault on
or about December 17, 1995, when sexual assault was an offense ineligible
for release to mandatory supervision.

Accordingly, it is recommended to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals that the j

requested habeas relief be denied

THE CLERK IS ORDERED to prepare a transcript and transmit same to the
Court of Criminal Appeals as provided by TEX. CRIM. PROC. CODE ANN. art. ll.07
(West 2013). The transcript shall include certified copies of the following
documents:

l. ~ The application for writ of habeas corpus;

2. The State’s answer;
3. The Court's order;

4. The indictment, judgment and sentence, plea papers, and docket sheets
in cause number 710860 (unless they have been sent to the Texas Court
of Criminal Appeals pursuant to a post-conviction writ of habeas
corpus order); and .

5. The State’s and the applicant's Proposed Findings of Fact and
Conclusions of Law (if any).

THE CLERK is further ORDERED to send a copy of this order to the
applicant, Joel Witwer, #01251417- Diboll Unit, 1604 South First Street, Diboll,
Texas 75941; and to counsel for the State, Baldwin Chin, 1201 Franklin Street,

Suite 600, Houston, Texas, 77002.

By the following signature, the Court adopts the State’s Proposed Findings of
Fact, Conclusions of Law and Order in cause no. 710860-A.

 

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sIGNEDthiS day Of- 335 inns ,2014.

 

PRESW ~' ITRICT COURT
HARRIS CoUNT TExAs "

Cause No. 710860-A

Ex PARTE § IN THE 228TH DISTRICT CoURT
§ oF
JoEL wITwER,
Appiicam § HARRIS CoUNTY, T E x A s
CERTIFICATE or SERVICE

 

The undersigned counsel certifies that I have served a copy of the State’s
Proposed Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law, and Order in cause number
710860-A to the applicant on November 26, 2014, by mail as follows:

Joel Witwer
#01251417- Diboll Unit

1604 South First Street
Diboll, Texas 75941

 

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Baldwin Chixi
Assistant Dist\r/ ict Attorney
v Y;Iarris County, Texas
”'1201 Franklin, suite 600
Houston, Texas 77002
(713) 755-6657
Texas Bar ID #00783 823

Prepared by:
Emily Patton - Intern