Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2024-05-02 08:11:31.682107+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:24:51.230644
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In The
                              Court of Appeals
                     Seventh District of Texas at Amarillo

                                     No. 07-24-00044-CR

                         AMANDA ROSE GRINIE, APPELLANT

                                              V.

                           THE STATE OF TEXAS, APPELLEE

                          On Appeal from the 100th District Court
                                   Carson County, Texas
                  Trial Court No. 7063, Honorable Dale A. Rabe, Presiding

                                       April 25, 2024
                    ORDER OF ABATEMENT AND REMAND
                    Before PARKER and DOSS and YARBROUGH, JJ.

      Appellant, Amanda Rose Grinie, appeals from the trial court’s judgment

adjudicating her guilty of manufacture or delivery of a controlled substance 1 and

sentencing her to fifty years of confinement. The appellate record was originally due

March 11, 2024, but the reporter’s record has not yet been filed. By letter of March 21,

2024, we notified the reporter that the record was overdue and directed her to advise this

      1 See TEX. HEALTH & SAFETY ANN. § 481.112.
Court of the status of the record by April 1. The reporter, however, has not filed the record

or had any further communication with this Court to date.

        Accordingly, we abate the appeal and remand the cause to the trial court for further

proceedings. See TEX. R. APP. P. 35.3(c) (“The trial and appellate courts are jointly

responsible for ensuring that the appellate record is timely filed.”); 37.3(a)(2) (requiring

appellate courts to “make whatever order is appropriate to avoid further delay and to

preserve the parties’ rights” when the appellate record is not timely filed). On remand,

the trial court shall determine the following:

        (1)    what tasks remain to complete the filing of the reporter’s record;

        (2)    why the reporter has not completed the necessary tasks;

        (3)    what amount of time is reasonably necessary for the completion of those

               tasks; and

        (4)    whether the reporter can complete the tasks within the time the trial court

               finds reasonable.

        Should the trial court determine that the reporter will require more than thirty days

to complete, certify, and file the reporter’s record, it shall arrange for a substitute reporter

to do so. The trial court is directed to enter such orders necessary to address the

aforementioned questions. So too shall it include its findings on those matters in a

supplemental clerk’s record and cause that record to be filed with this Court by May 28,

2024.

        Should the reporter file the record on or before May 9, 2024, she is directed to

immediately notify the trial court of the filing, in writing, whereupon the trial court shall not

be required to take any further action.

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      It is so ordered.

                              Per Curiam

Do not publish.

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