COURT OF APPEALS
SECOND DISTRICT OF TEXAS
FORT WORTH
NO. 02-13-00022-CR
DEBORAH K. BLAIR APPELLANT
V.
THE STATE OF TEXAS STATE
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FROM COUNTY CRIMINAL COURT NO. 3 OF TARRANT COUNTY
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ABATEMENT ORDER
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On April 16, 2013, the court sent Appellant Deborah K. Blair a letter to
inform her that her court-appointed attorney had filed a motion to withdraw as
counsel on appeal and a brief supporting that motion and to give appellant notice
of her right to examine a copy of the appellate record and her right to respond to
the Anders brief. Our correspondence was returned on April 23, 2013, with no
forwarding address.
We therefore abate this appeal and remand this case to the trial court.
The trial court shall conduct a hearing, with appellant, appellant’s counsel,
and a representative of the State present, to determine whether appellant desires
to prosecute her appeal, to obtain a valid mailing address and telephone number
for appellant should she wish to continue her appeal, and to take any other
measures that the trial court deems necessary to ensure that appellant does not
forfeit her right to appeal. The trial court shall take any step necessary to ensure
appellant’s presence at the hearing.
The trial court shall file a record of the hearing in this court on or before
Friday, June 21, 2013. The record shall include a supplemental clerk’s record
and supplemental reporter’s record. On our receipt of the supplemental record,
the appeal of this cause shall be automatically reinstated without further order.
Should appellant wish to prosecute her appeal, the time for filing appellant’s pro
se response to the Anders brief shall run from the date of the filing of the
supplemental clerk’s record or supplemental reporter’s record, whichever is filed
last.
The clerk of this court shall transmit a copy of this order to the appellant,
the attorneys of record, the trial court judge, the trial court clerk, and the court
reporter.
DATED May 7, 2013.
PER CURIAM
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Deborah K. Blair v. State
Combined Opinion