In The
Court of Appeals
Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont
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NO. 09-12-00048-CR
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GERALD GLENN NUGENT, JR., Appellant
V.
THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee
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On Appeal from the 253rd District Court
Liberty County, Texas
Trial Cause No. CR28370
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ORDER
The brief of the appellant was originally due on June 25, 2012. On November 29,
2012, we abated this appeal and remanded the case to the trial court for the purpose of
determining why the brief of the appellant has not been filed and to determine whether
appellant’s retained attorney, Scott Pawgan, has abandoned the appeal. In a hearing
conducted on December 19, 2012, the trial court found that the appellant, Gerald Glenn
Nugent, Jr., desires to appeal and that his retained counsel has not abandoned the appeal.
At the hearing, counsel represented to the trial court that “everything’s prepared, ready to
go” but claimed he could not file the brief due to the appeal being abated. The abatement
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of an appeal for the limited purpose of determining why counsel failed to file a brief is no
reason not to file the brief.
The trial court shall conduct a hearing within twenty days of the date of this order.
If at the hearing counsel fails to prove that he has prepared and filed with the Court of
Appeals a brief together with a motion for leave to allow late filing of the brief, the trial
court shall consider whether counsel has abandoned the appeal. If the trial court
determines that counsel has abandoned the appeal by failing to file a brief with the Court
of Appeals, the trial court shall immediately determine whether appellant is indigent and
new counsel should be appointed for the appeal, or if the appellant is not indigent
whether appellant requires additional time to retain new counsel or prepare a brief pro se.
See Tex. Code Crim. Proc. Ann. art. 26.04(j)(2) (West Supp. 2012). The trial court shall
prepare written findings and recommendations. A supplemental clerk’s record,
containing any orders and findings of the trial court, together with a supplemental
reporter’s record of the hearing here ordered, shall be filed on or before February 25,
2013.
ORDER ENTERED January 24, 2013.
PER CURIAM
Before McKeithen, C.J., Kreger and Horton, JJ.
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