IN THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS
OF TEXAS
NOS. WR-31,454-03 & WR-31,454-04
EX PARTE RODNEY ELNESTO SMILEY, Applicant
ON APPLICATIONS FOR WRITS OF HABEAS CORPUS
CAUSE NO. C-213-010293-1011284-B
IN THE 213TH DISTRICT COURT FROM TARRANT COUNTY
CAUSE NO. W94-02594-U(A)
IN THE 291ST DISTRICT COURT FROM DALLAS COUNTY
Per curiam.
ORDER
Pursuant to the provisions of Article 11.07 of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure, the
clerks of the trial courts transmitted to this Court these applications for writs of habeas corpus. Ex
parte Young, 418 S.W.2d 824, 826 (Tex. Crim. App. 1967). In 1994, Applicant was convicted of
theft in Dallas County and sentenced to twenty-five years’ imprisonment. In 2006, while he was out
of custody on parole, he was convicted of injury to a child in Tarrant County, and sentenced to ten
years’ imprisonment.
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Applicant’s theft conviction is subject to the pre-1996 mandatory supervision statute, while
his injury to a child is governed by the current “discretionary” mandatory supervision statute.
Applicant contends, among other things, that the Board of Pardons and Paroles did not timely vote
in 2010 on his discretionary mandatory supervision release for the injury to a child conviction, and
when the Board did vote to keep him in prison, they used the denial of release to mandatory
supervision to deny his release to mandatory supervision on the theft conviction. TDCJ responds that
an offender may not be released to mandatory supervision until eligible to be released on all
mandatory eligible offenses.
We order that this application be filed and set for submission to determine the remedy, if any,
for the failure to vote on Applicant’s original discretionary mandatory release date in a timely
fashion, and the legality of TDCJ’s policy of not “releasing” a prisoner to mandatory supervision on
one concurrent sentence until the prisoner is “eligible for release” on all concurrent sentences. The
parties are invited to brief these issues. The Office of General Counsel of TDCJ is also invited to file
a brief.
All briefs shall be filed with this Court within 60 days of the date of this order.
Delivered: April 29, 2015
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