PD-0994-15
PDR. NO.
COURT OF CR!»!AUPPE^
IN THE TEXAS COURT OP CRIMINAL APPEALS AUG 18 2015
CITY OF AUSTIN; TRAVIS COUNTY
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THIRTEENTH COURT OP APPEAtS
CITY OP CORPUS CHRISTI, NUECES COUNTY
MO. 13-14-00372-CR
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163RD JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS
CITY OP VIDOR, ORANGE COUNTY AUG 18 2G15
TRIAL COURT NO. B-130-137-R Abel Acosta, Clerk
CURTIS ALLEN GARRISON, APPELLANT PRO SB*
STATE OP TEXAS, APPELLEE.
APPELLANT'S PRO SE MOTION FOR EXTENSION OP TIME TO PILE PDR
T.R.APP. P. RULE 10.5(b)fI) 02015)
TO:THE HONORABLE JUSTICES OP THE COURT OP CRIMINAL APPEALS:
INTO COURT COMES, Curtis Alien Garrison, Appellant pro se,
hereinafter "Appellant," and pursuant to the applicable rules
governing petitions to the Court, requesting that the Court
exercises its discrettonay authority to consider the opinions
of the; Court of Appeals# and request that the Court, grants
him an extension of time, to research the applicable law, and
perfect his petition for discretionary review for submission
to the Court's clerk, for filing. In support of his request
to the;;; Court, Appellant would respectfully show the Court, the
following belowt
I.
Appellant was convicted in the 163rd Judicial District
Court, for capital ; murder, and sentenced to an automatic LIPE
term of imprisonment, from Orange County, Texas.
Appeal was taken to the Thirteenth Court of Appeals, and
the Court, denied the appeal July 16, 2015.
Under the rules. Appellant's first deadline expires August
16, 2015. Appellant 'has not* requested any extensions prior
to this request to the Court.
III.
JUSTIFICATION POR EXTENSION
Appellant's request is based on the following facts:
(I) Appellant has no previous litigation experience, or
legal back ground and training, and has no procedural experience
advancing his arguments, and claims applicable to petitions
requesting that the Court, reviews the opinions of a lower
Court of Appeals; (2) Appellant is confined, and assigned to
a maximum security prison facility, where movement is very limited,
and access, to the legal research tools in the prison's law
library, is restricted and on the verge of being inadequate*
(3) Appellant's access to Inmate litigants who provide inmate
to inmate legal assistance to prisoners, is also restricted
and limited under the new supervisors, {4) Appellant has no
control, over the decisions made by security supervisors to
suspend activities, and programs for the general population
including direct access to the prison's law library, and the
limited ^research material provided in it, {5) Appellant has
been unable to obtain the funding to retain a skilled, and
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trained professional lltgator, or attorney; (6) Appellant cannot
compel prison officials, to allow him greater access to the
legal materials, or the research tools within the law library;
and (7) Appellant is emotionally, and mentally impaired after
being subjected to the ordeal of a capital murder prosecution,
resulting from the shooting deaths of two individuals he knew.
APPELLANT'S GOOD PAITH DECLARATION
Appellant is requesting that the Court, grants him a ninty
(90) day extension," to prepare and perfect his petition to the
Clerk for filing. Appellant makes this request for an extension
in good faith, and for no other reason, and not for the purpose
of delaying the execution of the sentence imposed. Appellant
is required to exercise due diligence, throughout the appellate
process, and this request to the Court, is intended to discharge
Appellant's duty to the courts, to exercise due diligence.
SUMMARY AND PRAYER
WHEREFORE, PREMISES CONSIDERED, Appellant has shown the Court*
an extension of time is justified, and that his first request
for an extension should be granted la all things. Appellant
respectfully prays, that the Court* will give him ninty days
to prepare, and submit his pro se petition for discretionary
review from August 16, ,2015.
Date? August 2015 ^ Respectfully submitted,
Curtis Alien Garrison
#1926723, Robertson Unit
12071 P.M. 3522
Abilene, Texas 79601-8799
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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
1/ Curtis Allen Garrison, do hereby certify that a true
and correct coPy, of the foregoing Motion For Extension Of Time
To File PDR, has been served on the State, by U.S. Mail, first
class postage prepaid in advance, addressed to the below, on
this |/my day of August, 2015:
Mr. John D. Kimbrough
Criminal District Attorney
Orange County District Attorney's Office
801 Division
Orange, Texas 77630
Curtis Allen garrison
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