PD-0004-15
. April 4, 2015
Royce William Tawater
TDCj CID #1950643
Beto Unit
1391 m 3328
Tennessee Colony, TX 75880
Abel Acosta, Clerk
Court of Criminal Appeals
P.O. Box 12308 - Capitol Station
Austin, TX 78711
RE: PD 0004-15; Royce William Tawater v. The State of Texas.
To whom it may concern;
Enclosed, please find the original copy of my Motion For Rehearing. Also,
three (3) supporting documents, marked TAB(s) "A," "B," &"C" are included in this
mailing.
Please file these with the Court and include them with the papers related
to this cause.
Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter.
FILED IN
CURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS
Sincerely yours, APR 17 2015
Abel Acosta, Clerk
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Royce W. Tawater
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COURT I
APR 08 2015
TO THE HONORABLE JUDGES OF THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS OF TEXAS:
COMES NOW, ROYCE WILLIAM TAWATER, "Petitioner" pro se in the above-styled
and numbered cause and files this Petition For Rehearing pursuant to Rule 79.1
of the Texas Rules of Appellate Procedure and would respectfully show this Court
the following:
1. The Sixth Appellate District of Texas at Texarkana issued its Memorandum Op
inion and Judgement on December 10, 2014.
2. On December 28, 2014 Petitioner submitted his request for an extension of
time to file a Petition For Discretionary Review seeking an additional sixty,
(60, days in which to file the petition. Accompanying that request was a
motion requesting leave to file an original copy only of the petition.
3. This Court filed and granted those motions on January 7, 2015, making the dead
line to file the petition on/before March 10, 2015.
4. Collateral to that, the Sixth Appellate District of Texas at Texarkana issued
its Memorandum Opinion and Judgements on February 4, 2015 in cause numbers
06-14-00094-CR & 06-14-00095-Cr, (Trial Court Cause No(s). 29,310 & 29,311
respectively), affirming Petitioner's other two convictions held after a second
trial on the matters.
5. Subsequently, Petitioner filed his request to extend the time by 45 days and
his request to file.the original copy only of the petition. (03/01/15)
6. This Court granted those motions on March 6, 2015, extending the deadline
up to and including May 5, 2015; an additional 60 days.
7. On Monday, March 9, 2015 Petitioner placed in the Beto Unit's Indigent mail
drop-box his Petition For Discretionary Review, accompanied by his Unsworn
Declaration, a Certificate of Service, a Form 1-60 requesting the postage
be deducted from Petitioner's Inmate Trust Fund Account, along with the At
torney Generals carbon copy.
8. TAB "A", included in this document, is Petitioner's "File Copy" of that Form
1-60 asking that the postage be affixed and deducted from Petitioner's account.
This Form has all the relevant information for the Access To Courts Supervisor
to use to verify the mailing.
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