NUMBERS 13-14-00237-CR
COURT OF APPEALS
THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS
CORPUS CHRISTI - EDINBURG
THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellant,
v.
ISAAC SASTAITA, Appellee.
On appeal from the 105th District Court
of Kleberg County, Texas.
ORDER ABATING APPEAL
Before Justices Garza, Benavides, and Perkes
Order Per Curiam
The State perfected an appeal from an order granting a motion to suppress entered
by the 105th District Court of Kleberg County, Texas, in cause number 12-CRF-0137.
The State has filed a motion to abate and remand to the trial court for findings of fact and
conclusions of law.
On April 8, 2014, the trial court issued an order granting a motion to suppress. On
April 14, 2014, the State filed a timely request for findings of fact and conclusions of law.
The trial court has not made its findings of fact and conclusions of law in support of its
decision to grant the appellee’s motion to suppress.
Upon the request of the losing party on a motion to suppress evidence, the trial
court must make findings of fact and conclusions of law adequate to provide an appellate
court with a basis to which to review the trial court’s application of the law to the facts.
State v. Cullen, 195 S.W.3d 696, 699 (Tex. Crim. App. 2006). If the trial court does not
enter the findings of fact and conclusions of law within twenty days from its ruling on the
motion to suppress, the intermediate appellate court must exercise its authority under
Texas Rule of Appellate Procedure 44.4, and remand the case to the trial court and order
the trial court to enter findings of fact and conclusions of law. TEX. R. APP. PROC. 44.4;
Cullen, 195 S.W.3d at 698-700.
The Court, having considered the documents on file and the State’s motion, is of
the opinion that the motion should be granted. Accordingly, we GRANT counsel’s motion
to abate the present appeal. See TEX. R. APP. P. 44.4. Accordingly, this appeal is
ABATED and the cause REMANDED to the trial court.
Upon remand, the trial court is instructed to make and file findings of fact and
conclusions of law in support of its order granting the motion to suppress in this cause,
as requested by the State in its motion filed April 14, 2014. See Cullen. The trial court
shall cause its findings of fact and conclusions of law to be included in a supplemental
clerk's record filed with the Court within thirty days from the date of this order. Should
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the trial court require more time to comply with this order, it shall request an extension
prior to the expiration of this deadline.
It is so ORDERED.
PER CURIAM
Do not publish.
TEX. R. APP. P. 47.2(b).
Delivered and filed the
8th day of April, 2015.
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State v. Isaac Sastaita
Combined Opinion