Mark Rodriguez v. State

NUMBER 13-14-00013-CR COURT OF APPEALS THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS CORPUS CHRISTI - EDINBURG ____________________________________________________________ MARK RODRIGUEZ, Appellant, v. THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee. ____________________________________________________________ On appeal from the 28th District Court of Nueces County, Texas. ____________________________________________________________ MEMORANDUM OPINION Before Chief Justice Valdez and Justices Garza and Longoria Memorandum Opinion Per Curiam Appellant, Mark Rodriguez, was convicted of theft. On December 23, 2013, appellant filed a notice of appeal. On May 30, 2014, this Court abated the appeal because of counsel’s failure to file a brief and ordered the trial court to determine whether appellant desired to prosecute this appeal. At the trial court hearing, counsel appeared and stated that appellant had been released from jail and could not be located. The trial court made findings regarding the efforts made by counsel to locate the appellant and recommended that appellant has abandoned the appeal and the appeal should be dismissed. Accordingly, this case is hereby REINSTATED. Based upon the recommendation of the trial court that appellant has abandoned his appeal, we conclude that good cause exists to suspend the operation of Rule 42.2(a) in this case. See TEX. R. APP. P. 2. Accordingly, we DISMISS the appeal. PER CURIAM Do not publish. See TEX. R. APP. P. 47.2(b). Delivered and filed the 9th day of October, 2014. 2