NO. 07-04-0079-CV
IN THE COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE SEVENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS
AT AMARILLO
PANEL A
JUNE 23, 2004
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IN THE INTEREST OF CHRISTYN SHANAE LUSTER, A CHILD
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FROM THE 100TH DISTRICT COURT OF CARSON COUNTY;
NO. 9373; HONORABLE DAVID M. MCCOY, JUDGE
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Before JOHNSON, C.J., and REAVIS and CAMPBELL, JJ.
MEMORANDUM OPINION
Appellant Shannon Luster filed a pro se notice of appeal challenging the trial court’s
order terminating her parental rights to Christyn Shanae Luster.1 The clerk’s record was
filed on March 4, 2004; however, no reporter’s record was filed. Appellant’s brief was due
to be filed on April 5, 2004, but has yet to be filed and no motion for extension of time was
filed. By letter dated June 1, 2004, this Court notified Luster at her address in the McIntosh
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Luster recites in her notice of appeal that attorney Paul Shunatona is not her
attorney in this case.
County Jail in Oklahoma of the missed deadline and also directed her to reasonably
explain the failure to file a brief with a showing that appellees William Darell Luster and
Lynn Lee Luster, the child’s grandparents, have not been injured by the delay on or before
June 14, 2004. The Court’s letter was returned with a notation from the post office that
Luster was no longer at that address and had left no forwarding address.
Accordingly, we dismiss this appeal for want of prosecution and failure to comply
with an order of this Court. See Tex. R. App. P. 38.8(a)(1) and 42.3(b) and (c).
Don H. Reavis
Justice
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