Order entered January 21, 2015
In The
Court of Appeals
Fifth District of Texas at Dallas
No. 05-14-00146-CR
ESSIE D. HOPKINS, Appellant
V.
THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee
On Appeal from the 291st Judicial District Court
Dallas County, Texas
Trial Court Cause No. F-1355764-U
ORDER
The Court GRANTS Lori Ordiway’s January 20, 2015, motion to permit current
appointed counsel to withdraw on appeal, and we DIRECT the Clerk of the Court to remove her
as appellant’s attorney of record.
We ORDER the trial court to appoint new counsel to represent appellant. We further
ORDER the trial court to transmit a supplemental clerk’s record containing the appointment of
new counsel to this Court within ten (10) days.
We ABATE the appeal to allow the trial court to comply with this order. The appeal will
be reinstated ten (10) days from the date of this order or when the order appointing new counsel
is received.
The appeal remains set for submission on March 24, 2015, at 9:00 a.m. on the briefs
previously filed.
/s/ DOUGLAS S. LANG
JUSTICE