Tristan Omarr Armstrong v. State

ACCEPTED 01-14-00560-CR FIRST COURT OF APPEALS HOUSTON, TEXAS 12/30/2014 4:10:49 PM CHRISTOPHER PRINE CLERK IN THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF TEXAS FILED IN 1st COURT OF APPEALS HOUSTON, TEXAS Case No. 01-14-00560-CR 12/30/2014 4:10:49 PM CHRISTOPHER A. PRINE Clerk TRISTAN OMARR ARMSTRONG Vs. THE STATE OF TEXAS Appeal from the 226th District Court, Bexar County, Texas Trial Court No. 2013CR5695 Honorable Sid Harle Presiding DEFENDANT’ S MOTION TO EXTEND TIME TO FILE BRIEF OSCAR L. CANTU, JR. Attorney at Law, PLLC 507 South Main San Antonio, Texas 78204 (210)472-3900 Phone (210)354-2996 Fax R3Oscar@aol.com MOTION COMES NOW, Oscar Cantu, Current Counsel for Tristan Omarr Armstrong, and files this, Defendant’s Motion to Extend Time to File Brief and would show unto the Court as follows: 1. Counsel for the Appellant filed an Ander’s Brief in this case. 2. The Defendant was ordered to file his own brief, if desired, by December 30, 2014 in this case. 3. Counsel prepared a complete copy of the record for transmittal to the Defendant who declined to use it. He is disabled and the traditional copy method is not useful to him. 4. The Defendant requested that this Counsel make hard copies of all documents and the record and deliver same to this residence. Counsel has agreed. In an effort to give the Defendant ample time to review this Counsel has conferred with the trial parties there is no objection to an additional, thirty (30) days are required to complete the task at hand. 5. Counsel hopes that this explanation satisfies the requirements of a Motion to Continue raises a suitable basis and grounds for the Court to grant this extension. 6. WHEREFORE, PREMISES CONSIDERED, Appellant moves the Court to extend the deadline for the Defendant to file any Brief to January 31, 2015 a 30 day extension. Respectfully submitted, By:__/s/ by Oscar Cantu OSCAR LUIS CANTU, JR. Attorney at Law, PLLC Oscar “JR” Cantu Texas Bar No. 03767448 507 South Main San Antonio, Texas 78204 Tel. (210) 472-3900 Fax. (210) 354-2996 Attorney for Appellant, Tristan Omarr Armstrong 2 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE This is to certify that a true and correct copy of this document was filed with all parties to this Appeal via hand delivery or facsimile transmission as indicated below: Appellee: District Attorney’s Office facsimile transmission to (210)335-2436 on this, the 30th day of December, 2014. /s/by Oscar Cantu Oscar Cantu CERTIFICATE OF CONFERENCE This is to certify that I did confer with the Appeals Section of the DA’s Office and they do not oppose a first request for continuance on this, the 30th day of December, 2014. /s/ by Oscar Cantu_ Oscar Cantu 3