Hung Le v. State

FILED IN 1ST COURT OF APPEALS HOUSTON. TEXAS OCT 15 2015 Case Number CHRIS PRINE 01-14-01019-CR an CLER! Hung Le, Appellant § COURT OF APPEALS § Ist DISTRICT State of Texas, Appellee § HOUSTON, TEXAS Pro se Motion for Extension of Time to File Response to Anders Brief To the Honorable Justices of said Court: Appellant's appointed counsel file a brief in the above styled and numbered cause pursuant to Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738 (1967). Appellant filed a pro se request for access to the clerk's record and reporter's record in preparation for use in preparing his pro se response to counsel's brief and included a motion for extension of time to respond to counsel's Anders brief. This Honorable Court granted said extension which is set to expire on November 2,2015. Appellant is in the transit to another Unit in safekeeping area and currently confined in the Life Division of the Texas Department of Justice Center in Huntsville Unit, and has suffered yet another epileptic seizure, caused scalp laceration and became hospitalized at Huntsville Memorial Hospital on 9/29/2015 and was ordered by Doctor Windham to remove staples within 7 days (please see attached hospital's report) during his period of extension and appeal response filing. As a result, Appellant has become confused, disoriented, and has shown Due to Appellant's financial hardship to hire a private counsel, non- accessible permission for any assistance due to past 50 day safety confinement, now in transit to a new unit, recurring seizures, and incompetency mental condition, Appellant now respectfully requests the Court grant him another Appellate Public Defender Bob Wicoff to substitute Public Defendant Crowley's withdrawal and additional sixty (60) days from the granting of the motion to retain another Appellate Public Defender or find an outside assistance and allow time for that professional to help Appellant prepare and file a timely pro se response to counsel's brief and a writ of Habeas Corpus as advised by Appellate Public Defender Crowley. Respectfully submitted, hl^/ffl^ Hung Le, Pro se Appellant f/uA/7Jr 7> 3 a X \5 V) oLj, W TJ 2£ •iii 1 2. rf r* *"'J 7* to 0 > o 1 sa