Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2023-02-14 12:09:11.975645+00
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Fourth Court of Appeals
                                   San Antonio, Texas
                                        February 10, 2023

                   No. 04-22-00555-CR, 04-22-00558-CR & 04-22-00559-CR

                                       Martin MERCADO,
                                            Appellant

                                                 v.

                                      The STATE of Texas,
                                            Appellee

                  From the 175th Judicial District Court, Bexar County, Texas
                Trial Court No. 2019-CR-9451, 2019-CR-9449 & 2019-CR-9450
                       Honorable Catherine Torres-Stahl, Judge Presiding

                                         ORDER
         Appellant has filed a letter we treat as a motion to consolidate appeal numbers 04-22-
00555-CR, 04-22-00558-CR, and 04-22-00559-CR. Due to the similarities between the three
cases, this court has determined that the three cases should be consolidated for briefing and
argument. It is therefore ORDERED that the motion to consolidate is GRANTED. The parties
shall file all motions, briefs, and other documents as if the three appeals were one case, but shall
include all three appeal numbers with the style of the case. See TEX. R. APP. P. 9.3(a). The
records for the three appeals shall remain separated. If the court hears oral argument in these
appeal numbers, all three cases shall be argued together, as a single appeal, and the total time
limit for each side at oral argument shall equal the ordinary time limit for a single appeal. The
court will dispose of the entire case with the same judgment, opinion, and mandate.

                                                      _________________________________
                                                      Beth Watkins, Justice
       IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said
court on this 10th day of February, 2023.

                                              _________________________________
                                              Michael A. Cruz,
                                              Clerk of Court