Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2020-03-14 02:16:20.286984+00
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NUMBER 13-19-00402-CV

                              COURT OF APPEALS

                   THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS

                      CORPUS CHRISTI – EDINBURG
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DAVID CLOUD,                                                                     Appellant,

                                              v.

TEXAS DEPARTMENT
OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE,                                Appellee.
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             On appeal from the 343rd District Court
                     of Bee County, Texas.
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                         MEMORANDUM OPINION
              Before Justices Benavides, Perkes, and Tijerina
               Memorandum Opinion by Justice Benavides

       This matter is before the Court on the appellant’s failure to file a brief or reasonably

explain his failure to do so. The appellant's brief in the above cause was originally due on

December 12, 2019.

       On December 16, 2019, the Clerk of the Court notified appellant the brief had not
been timely filed and that the appeal was subject to dismissal for want of prosecution

under Texas Rule of Appellate Procedure 38.8(a)(1), unless within ten days from the date

of receipt of the letter, appellant reasonably explained the failure and the appellee was

not significantly injured by the appellant's failure to timely file a brief. To date, Appellant

has failed to file a brief.

       Appellant has failed to either reasonably explain his failure to file a brief, file a

motion for extension of time to file her brief, or file his brief. Accordingly, the appeal is

DISMISSED FOR WANT OF PROSECUTION. See TEX. R. APP. P. 38.8(a), 42.3(b).

                                                                 GINA M. BENAVIDES,
                                                                 Justice

Delivered and filed the
12th day of March, 2020.

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