NUMBER 13-18-00030-CR
COURT OF APPEALS
THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS
CORPUS CHRISTI – EDINBURG
MONICA MELISSA PATTERSON, Appellant,
v.
THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee.
On appeal from the 370th District Court
of Hidalgo County, Texas.
ORDER
Before Justices Benavides, Tijerina, and Silva
Order Per Curiam
This cause is before the Court on the Appellant’s motion for access to sealed
records, namely volume 27 of the reporter’s record. On October 17, 2017, the date of the
hearing, the trial court ordered the record of the hearing sealed.
Appellant now requests a copy of the sealed portion of the record to aid in the
litigation of Appellant’s Writ of Habeas Corpus. Accordingly, we hereby GRANT the
motion and order the Clerk of the Court to provide access to volumes 27 of the reporter’s
record to the attorneys for the Appellant and State, if they should request it.
The State and Appellant’s counsel are ordered to abide by the sealing order of the
trial court, and counsel is further ordered to treat the record as confidential and to
safeguard it as a sealed record. Counsel is further ordered to maintain the confidentiality
of the information contained in this sealed record and is prohibited from disseminating the
sensitive information contained within the sealed record to any person other than for
legitimate purposes related to Appellant’s Writ of Habeas Corpus.
PER CURIAM
Do not publish.
TEX. R. APP. P. 47.2(b).
Delivered and filed the
13th day of January, 2022.
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