Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2018-11-17 07:36:23.665405+00
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NUMBER 13-18-00615-CR

                                    COURT OF APPEALS

                          THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS

                             CORPUS CHRISTI - EDINBURG

                                 IN RE KENNETH D. NIOUS

                           On Petition for Writ of Mandamus.

                                 MEMORANDUM OPINION

            Before Justices Rodriguez, Contreras, and Benavides
                Memorandum Opinion by Justice Rodriguez1

        Relator Kenneth D. Nious, proceeding pro se, filed a petition for writ of mandamus

in the above cause through which he seeks to compel the trial court to conduct a hearing

regarding an allegedly lost or destroyed reporter’s record in related appellate cause

number 13-17-00482-CR, Nious v. State, which is currently pending in this Court.

        To be entitled to mandamus relief, the relator must establish both that he has no

adequate remedy at law to redress his alleged harm, and that what he seeks to compel

        1 See TEX. R. APP. P. 52.8(d) (“When denying relief, the court may hand down an opinion but is not
required to do so.”); id. R. 47.4 (distinguishing opinions and memorandum opinions).
is a purely ministerial act not involving a discretionary or judicial decision. In re Harris,

491 S.W.3d 332, 334 (Tex. Crim. App. 2016) (orig. proceeding); In re McCann, 422
S.W.3d 701, 704 (Tex. Crim. App. 2013) (orig. proceeding). If the relator fails to meet

both requirements, then the petition for writ of mandamus should be denied. State ex rel.

Young v. Sixth Jud. Dist. Ct. of Apps. at Texarkana, 236 S.W.3d 207, 210 (Tex. Crim.

App. 2007).

       In related appellate cause number 13-17-00482-CV, the reporter’s record was not

timely filed. We ordered the trial court to conduct a hearing to determine if appellant had

abandoned the appeal or if the reporter’s record, or any part thereof, had been lost or

destroyed. After we issued that order, the court reporter informed the Court that all

motions in that case were filed by submission, no hearings were held, and therefore, no

records were made. The appeal remains pending in this Court.

       The Court, having examined and fully considered the petition for writ of mandamus,

the record, the applicable law, and taking judicial notice of the records in appellate cause

number 13-17-00482-CV, is of the opinion that relator has not met his burden to obtain

mandamus relief. See, e.g., Ex parte Gutierrez, 337 S.W.3d 883, 893 (Tex. Crim. App.

2011); see also Bolton v. State, No. 02-12-00444-CR, 2013 WL 2340045, at *1 (Tex.

App.—Fort Worth May 30, 2013, no pet.) (mem. op., not designated for publication).

Accordingly, we deny the petition for writ of mandamus.

                                                                NELDA V. RODRIGUEZ
                                                                Justice

Do not publish.
See TEX. R. APP. P. 47.2(b).

Delivered and filed the 15th
day of November, 2018.

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