Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2022-01-24 08:15:54.221881+00
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NUMBER 13-21-00183-CR

                             COURT OF APPEALS

                   THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS

                     CORPUS CHRISTI – EDINBURG

____________________________________________________________

JASON REIP,                                                                 Appellant,

                                           v.

THE STATE OF TEXAS,                                 Appellee.
____________________________________________________________

              On appeal from the 36th District Court
                   of Aransas County, Texas.
____________________________________________________________

                         MEMORANDUM OPINION
                Before Justices Hinojosa, Tijerina, and Silva
                 Memorandum Opinion by Justice Tijerina

      This cause is before the Court on its own motion. On June 15, 2021, appellant’s

trial counsel filed a notice of appeal of the pre-trial rulings in a plea bargain case. On

August 19, 2021 and August 31, 2021, the Clerk of the Court notified appellant that his

brief was past due. On September 21, 2021, the matter was abated and remanded to the

trial court to address counsel’s failure to respond to the late brief notices. On November
22, 2021, we received a supplemental record containing the trial court’s finding. The

supplemental record contained findings that the appeal was not filed at the request of the

appellant, the appellant does not have the right to appeal, and appellant has effectively

abandoned this appeal.

       The Texas Rules of Appellate Procedure provide that an appeal must be dismissed

if the trial court’s certification does not show that the defendant has the right of appeal.

TEX. R. APP. P. 25.2(d); see TEX. R. APP. P. 37.1, 44.3, 44.4. Accordingly, the appeal is

reinstated and is hereby dismissed.

                                                                      JAIME TIJERINA
                                                                      Justice

Do not publish.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

Delivered and filed on the
20th day of January, 2022.

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