Tawater, Royce William v. State

0 NO: PD- ROYCE WILLIAM TAWATER § IN THE TEXAS COURT Petitioner, § vs. § OF THE STATE OF TEXAS § Resoondent. § CRIMINAL APPEALS MOTION FOR EXTENSION OF TIME TO FILE A PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW TO THE HONORABLE JUDGES OF SAID COURT: COMES NOW/ "Petitioner," Royce William Tawater, and files this Motion For Extension of Time to File a Petition For Discretionary Review, ("PDR"), requesting an additional sixty (60) days within which to file a PDR. In support of this motion, Petitioner would show this Court the following: I. Petitioner was convicted in the 354th District Court of Hunt County, Texas of the offense of Unlawful Possession of a Firearm by a Felon in Case No: 29,503, styled: The State of Texas v. Royce William Tawater. Petitioner appealed to the Court of Appeals, Sixth Supreme Judicial District, appeal No: 06-14-00075-CR. The case was affirmed on December 10, 2014. II- The present deadline for filing a PDR is January 9, 2015. Petitioner has not requested any extensions prior to this request. III. Petitioner's request for an extension is based upon the following facts: (a) Petitioner was not informed of the decision of the court of appeals in affirming his case until December 15, 2014; (b) Since that time, Petitioner has been attemp ting to gain legal representation in this matter; (c) Petitioner's attorney oin appeal has informed him that hshe will not represent him on the PDR, and; (d) Pet itioner's unit of assignment is scheduled to undergo a thirty-day Security Lockdown begining^gQgftflQiiqfoj, 2015. COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS FILED IN COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS -i- JAN 05 2015 JAN 07 2015 Abel Acosta, Clerk IV. WHEREFORE, PREMESIS CONSIDERED, Petitioner prays this Court grant this motion and extend the deadline for filing the Petition For Discretionary Review up to and including March 10, 2015. Respectfully submitted, Royce W. Tawater, Pro Se UNSWORN DECLARATION "I, Royce W. Tawater, TDCJ-CID #195 0643, Being presently incarcerated in the Beto Unit of the TDCJ-CID, declare under penalty of Perjury that the above and foregoing are both true and correct." x ftrjaM* ^ -fcKA^fATP^ Royce W. Tawater CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE Thisis to further certify that I have mailed a true and correct copy of this document to the Hunt County District Attorney, First Class Mail, postage prepaid, by placing the same in the Beto Unit's mail drop-box, designed for that purpose, on this the 28th day of December/ 2014. /(^' Royce W. Tawater C.c. Hunt County D.A. file/rwt RECEIVED IN COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS JAN 05 2015 Abel Aco6ta, Clerk