TEXAS COURT OF APPEALS, THIRD DISTRICT, AT AUSTIN
NO. 03-17-00575-CR
Jamie Fletcher, Jr., Appellant
v.
The State of Texas, Appellee
FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF TRAVIS COUNTY, 299TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT
NO. D-1-DC-85-079142, HONORABLE KAREN SAGE, JUDGE PRESIDING
MEMORANDUM OPINION
A review of the record shows that on November 2, 2016, the trial court denied
appellant’s pro se motion for DNA testing filed in June 2016, see Tex. Code Crim. Proc. arts. 64.01-
.05, and that appellant filed another motion for DNA testing and appointment of counsel in
December 2016.1 The State filed a response to the motion for appointment of counsel, stating that
it did not oppose the request, and on August 10, 2017, the trial court appointed an attorney to
represent appellant under chapter 64. See id.
Appellant’s pro se notice of appeal was filed in the trial court clerk’s office on
August 15, 2017. In that document, appellant stated that he wished “to prosecute this appeal from
the judgment entered in this action on the 9[th] day of April, 1986,” referring to his conviction for
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Appellant has also filed several other filings, but it does not appear any orders have been
entered as to those documents, nor has counsel indicated that the appeal concerns those documents.
attempted aggravated sexual assault. Following an inquiry by this Court into what was the subject
matter of the appeal and whether we could exercise jurisdiction over this matter, appellant’s
appointed attorney has explained that this is an appeal from the refusal of DNA testing but that the
trial court has not signed any orders as to the subsequent motion for DNA testing.
Because the trial court has not signed any appealable orders as to the most recent
motion for DNA testing and the time for appealing from the November 2016 order ran well before
appellant filed his notice of appeal, see Tex. R. App. P. 26.2, we dismiss the appeal for want of
jurisdiction, see Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 64.05 (appeals under chapter 64 are “in the same manner
as an appeal of any other criminal matter”); Apolinar v. State, 820 S.W.2d 792, 794 (Tex. Crim. App.
1991) (court of appeals lacks jurisdiction to review interlocutory orders unless expressly granted by
law); Taylor v. State, 268 S.W.3d 752, 755 (Tex. App.—Waco 2008, pet. ref’d) (same). We deny
appellant’s motion to abate the appeal.
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David Puryear, Justice
Before Justices Puryear, Field, and Bourland
Dismissed for Want of Jurisdiction
Filed: October 26, 2017
Do Not Publish
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Jamie Fletcher, Jr. v. State
Combined Opinion