Court Opinion

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Order entered June 18, 2013

                                              In The
                                  Court of Appeals
                           Fifth District of Texas at Dallas
                                       No. 05-13-00178-CR

                                  JEFFREY KING, Appellant

                                                 V.

                              THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee

                      On Appeal from the County Criminal Court No. 9
                                   Dallas County, Texas
                             Trial Court Cause No. 10-13223

                                             ORDER
       Appellant’s brief was originally due April 13, 2013.         The Court has twice granted

appellant thirty-day extensions of time to file his brief. The Court now has before it appellant’s

third extension request, seeking another thirty days to file appellant’s brief.       We DENY

appellant’s June 13, 2013 third motion to extend time to file his brief.

       We ORDER the trial court to conduct a hearing to determine why appellant’s brief has

not been filed.      In this regard, the trial court shall make appropriate findings and

recommendations and determine whether appellant desires to prosecute the appeal, whether

appellant is indigent, or if not indigent, whether retained counsel has abandoned the appeal. See

TEX. R. APP. P. 38.8(b). If the trial court cannot obtain appellant’s presence at the hearing, the

trial court shall conduct the hearing in appellant’s absence. See Meza v. State, 742 S.W.2d 708
(Tex. App.–Corpus Christi 1987, no pet.) (per curiam). If appellant is indigent, the trial court is

ORDERED to take such measures as may be necessary to assure effective representation, which

may include appointment of new counsel.

         We ORDER the trial court to transmit a record of the proceedings, which shall include

written findings and recommendations, to this Court within THIRTY DAYS of the date of this

order.

         This appeal is ABATED to allow the trial court to comply with the above order. The

appeal shall be reinstated thirty days from the date of this order or when the findings are

received, whichever is earlier.

                                                     /s/    CAROLYN WRIGHT
                                                            CHIEF JUSTICE