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County of Van zand t COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS
KAREN WILSON SEP 25 2015
294th Judicial District Clerk
121 East Dallas, Room 302
Canton, Texas 4ber Acosta, Clerk
Court of Criminal Appeals
P.O. Box 12308, Capital Station
Austin, Texas 78711
Re: Burris, Johnson Walter
CCA No. WR-83,246~01
Trial Court. Case No. CR08-00113
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Dear Clerk, . - '··
I am in receipt of your letter dated September 18; 2015 and have re-forwarded the habeas
application referenced above. Please allow this letter to clarify the reasons for any delay
in the processing of this matter and to assure the Court that said delay was neither
intentional nor the result of conscious indifference by me or my staff.
It was only after contact with your office recently that I was made aware of the Court's
Order dated June 3, 2015. Unfortunately, due to our county e-mail software's
mis-categorization of the Court's e-mail as "Spam", the e-mail notification containing the
Court's order of June 3, 2015 was not seen until this month and after the Court's further
contact with my office. Of course, upon being made aware of the Court's Order, I
immediately reviewed the file, secured the Application for Writ of Habeas Corpus,
confirmed its completion and forwarded the appropriate documents the same day,
September 3, 2015.
As per the USPS tracking which is attached hereto, the packet containing the documents
in this matter was received in Austin on September 5, 2015, sat at the Austin post office
for approximately five (5) days and was returned from Austin on September 10, 2015
back to us here. USPS indicates there was some issue with the amount of postage,
though, postage was affixed through our county postal scale/machine. Notwithstanding
the same, the package was re-weighed andre-mailed on September 14, 2015 and should
have been received by the Court prior to this letter.
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Although this situation has now been resolved, please know that several steps have been
taken to assure similar delays do not occur in the future. The Court's e-mail address has
been added to our county's "Safe Senders" list, the e-maillspam software has been
updated to .allow e-mails with attachments from the Court's domain to go directly to our
e-mail "Inbox", and our policy has been modified to verify receipt of mailed items to the
Court after mailing. As I would hope the Court is aware from our extended history of
working together, I, nor my office, would ever intentionally fail to comply with an Order
from the Court. As to any delay that has occurred, please accept my personal apologies
for any inconvenience that this has caused to you and Mr. Burris.
Should you have further questions or concerns or if I can be of assistance in any other
way, please do not hesitate to contact me here at the office.
Sincer ly,
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a n Wilson
Van andt County District Clerk
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Burris, Johnson Walter
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