Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2015-10-16 00:48:08.142655+00
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In The

                                Court of Appeals
                    Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont
                           ____________________
                              NO. 09-14-00093-CR
                           ____________________

                            IN RE GARY W. BRYAN

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                               Original Proceeding
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                          MEMORANDUM OPINION

      Gary W. Bryan petitions this Court for a writ of mandamus to compel the

Judge of the 356th District Court to rule on a motion Bryan filed after his

convictions became final. See Bryan v. State, Nos. 14-12-00424-CR & 14-12-

00425-CR, 2013 WL 3477283 (Tex. App.—Houston [14th Dist.] July 9, 2013, pet.

ref’d) (mem. op.). There is no active habeas proceeding; accordingly, this Court

has mandamus jurisdiction. See Padieu v. Court of Appeals of Tex., Fifth Dist., 392
S.W.3d 115, 117-18 (Tex. Crim. App. 2013).

      Bryan claims he asked the trial court to grant him the opportunity to review

the clerk’s records and the reporter’s records that were prepared for his appeals. He

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asks this Court to order the trial court to forward the clerk’s and reporter’s records

to Bryan for his use in preparing an application for a writ of habeas corpus.1 Bryan

has not demonstrated that he has a clear and indisputable right to the relief he

requested from the trial court. See In re Williams, No. 09-09-00584-CV, 2010 WL
183861, at *1 (Tex. App.—Beaumont Jan. 21, 2010, orig. proceeding) (mem. op.);

see also In re Cash, No. 06-04-00045-CV, 2004 WL 769473, at *1 (Tex. App.—

Texarkana Apr.13, 2004, orig. proceeding) (mem. op.) (A trial court has no duty to

rule on “free-floating motions unrelated to currently pending actions.”). We deny

the petition for writ of mandamus.

      PETITION DENIED.

                                                                PER CURIAM

Opinion Delivered March 19, 2014
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Before McKeithen, C.J., Kreger and Johnson, JJ.

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      Bryan does not provide sufficient information for this Court to determine
whether Bryan had indigent status at the time of his appeal.
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