In The
Court of Appeals
Seventh District of Texas at Amarillo
No. 07-14-00439-CR
JESUS LOPEZ RAYMUNDO, APPELLANT
V.
THE STATE OF TEXAS, APPELLEE
On Appeal from the County Court at Law No. 6
Collin County, Texas
Trial Court No. 006-87832-2013, Honorable Jay A. Bender, Presiding
March 30, 2015
Order of Abatement and Remand
Before QUINN, C.J., and HANCOCK and PIRTLE, JJ.
Appellant, Jesus Lopez Raymundo, filed notice of appeal from a judgment
adjudicating him guilty of the offense of driving while intoxicated,1 and sentence of
ninety days’ incarceration in the Collin County Jail and $800 fine. The incarceration
portion of the sentence was suspended for a period of fifteen months and appellant was
placed on community supervision. Appellant timely appealed this conviction and
sentence. The appellate court clerk received and filed the trial court clerk’s record on
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See TEX. PENAL CODE ANN. § 41.04 (West Supp. 2014).
December 29, 2014. The official court reporter filed the reporter’s record with the
appellate court clerk on January 23, 2015. Consequently, appellant’s brief was due to
be filed on or before February 23, 2015.2 See TEX. R. APP. P. 38.6(a). Appellant neither
filed a brief nor requested an extension of time to file a brief by this deadline. As such,
on March 3, this Court sent appellant notice that his brief was past due. In that letter,
this Court informed appellant that, if he failed to file his brief by March 13, the appeal
would be abated and the cause remanded to the trial court without further notice. To
date, appellant has not filed his brief nor responded to our March 3 correspondence.
Accordingly, we now abate this appeal and remand the cause to the trial court.
See TEX. R. APP. P. 38.8(b)(2). The clerk’s record reflects that the trial court has
appointed Debra L. Parker to represent appellant on appeal. Upon remand, the judge
of the trial court is directed to immediately cause notice to be given of and to conduct a
hearing to determine: (1) whether appellant desires to prosecute this appeal; (2) if
appellant desires to prosecute this appeal, whether appellant is indigent; (3) whether
present counsel for appellant has abandoned the appeal; (4) if appellant desires to
prosecute this appeal and is indigent, whether appellant=s present counsel should be
replaced; and (5) what orders, if any, should be entered to assure the filing of
appropriate notices and documentation to dismiss appellant=s appeal if appellant does
not desire to prosecute this appeal or, if appellant desires to prosecute this appeal, to
assure that the appeal will be diligently pursued. If the trial court determines that the
present attorney for appellant should be replaced, the trial court should cause the Clerk
2
Thirty days from the date that the reporter’s record was filed would be February 22. However,
February 22, 2015, was a Sunday. Thus, the deadline for filing appellant’s brief would be extended to
Monday, February 23, 2015. See TEX. R. APP. P. 4.1(a).
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of this Court to be furnished the name, address, and State Bar of Texas identification
number of the newly-appointed or newly-retained attorney.
The trial court is directed to: (1) conduct any necessary hearings; (2) make and
file findings of fact, conclusions of law, and recommendations addressing the
determinations identified above and cause them to be included in a supplemental clerk=s
record; (3) cause the hearing proceedings to be transcribed and included in a
supplemental reporter=s record; (4) have a record of the proceedings made to the extent
any of the proceedings are not included in the supplemental clerk=s record or the
supplemental reporter=s record; and (5) cause the records of the proceedings to be sent
to this Court. See TEX. R. APP. P. 38.8(b)(3). In the absence of a request for extension
of time from the trial court, the supplemental clerk=s record, supplemental reporter=s
record, and any additional proceeding records, including any orders, findings,
conclusions, and recommendations, are to be sent so as to be received by the Clerk of
this Court not later than Wednesday, April 29, 2015.
Per Curiam
Do not publish.
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