Court Opinion

ID: 9382304
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Date Created: 2023-03-26 07:16:30.317451+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:17:38.396389
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Motion Granted; Appeal Dismissed and Memorandum Opinion filed March
21, 2023.

                                     In The

                    Fourteenth Court of Appeals

                              NO. 14-23-00055-CV

          IN RE COMMITMENT OF JUAN CARLOS RAMIREZ

                   On Appeal from the 176th District Court
                            Harris County, Texas
                      Trial Court Cause No. 1268291Z

                         MEMORANDUM OPINION

      Appellant has filed a motion to dismiss this appeal for want of jurisdiction.
This is an attempted appeal from an order of civil commitment as a sexually
violent predator signed November 10, 2022. See Tex. Health & Safety Code Ann.
§ 841.146(b). Appellant filed an untimely motion for new trial on December 19,
2022. Appellant’s notice of appeal was filed January 23, 2023

      The notice of appeal must be filed within 30 days after the judgment is
signed when appellant has not filed a timely post-judgment motion. See Tex. R.
App. P. 26.1
      Appellant’s notice of appeal was not filed timely. A motion to extend time is
necessarily implied when an appellant, acting in good faith, files a notice of appeal
beyond the time allowed by Texas Rule of Appellate Procedure 26.1, but within
the 15-day grace period provided by Rule 26.3 for filing a motion to extend time.
See Verburgt v. Dorner, 959 S.W.2d 615, 617–18 (1997) (construing the
predecessor to Rule 26). Appellant’s notice of appeal was not filed within the
15-day period provided by Texas Rule of Appellate Procedure 26.3.

      We grant appellant’s motion and dismiss the appeal for want of jurisdiction.

                                      PER CURIAM

Panel consists of Chief Justice Christopher and Justices Jewell and Spain.

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