Court Opinion

ID: 9367203
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Date Created: 2023-01-31 13:08:47.925916+00
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Fourth Court of Appeals
                                       San Antonio, Texas
                                              January 25, 2023

                                           No. 04-22-00748-CR

                                       IN RE David Gene BECKA

                                           Original Proceeding 1

                                                  ORDER

        On November 4, 2022, relator filed a petition for writ of mandamus and prohibition
complaining about a Bexar County residency requirement imposed as a bond condition in the trial
court’s order titled “Special Conditions of Release on Bond.” Relator also filed an emergency
motion for stay, which we granted in part on November 4, 2022. We requested responses from the
trial court and real party in interest.

        On December 13, 2022, the trial court filed a response revealing it signed an order on
November 17, 2022, which allows relator to reside in Austin, Texas while out on bond—the relief
he seeks through his petition. Accordingly, an order from this court will have no practical effect
because there is nothing to mandamus. See In re Bonilla, 424 S.W.3d 528, 534 (Tex. Crim. App.
2014) (orig. proceeding) (dismissing petition because relief sought had become moot). Because
relator has received the relief requested in his petition, we DISMISS the petition as moot. The stay
imposed on November 4, 2022 is LIFTED.

        It is so ORDERED on January 25, 2023.

                                                                    _____________________________
                                                                    Luz Elena D. Chapa, Justice

       IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said
court on this 25th day of January, 2023.

                                                                    _____________________________
                                                                    Michael A. Cruz, Clerk of Court

1
 This proceeding arises out of Cause No. 2019-CR-1257, styled The State of Texas vs. David Becka, pending in the
144th Judicial District Court, Bexar County, Texas, the Honorable Andrew Wyatt Carruthers presiding.