In The
Court of Appeals
Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont
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NO. 09-24-00102-CR __________________
EX PARTE DANIEL TROY LEBLANC
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On Appeal from the Criminal District Court Jefferson County, Texas Trial Cause No. 24DCCR0361 __________________________________________________________________
MEMORANDUM OPINION
Daniel Troy LeBlanc filed an application for a writ of habeas corpus seeking a bond reduction in Trial Cause Number 24DCCR0361. The trial court issued the writ but denied relief. LeBlanc filed a notice of appeal.
The State filed a motion to dismiss LeBlanc’s appeal on the ground that the trial court had granted the State’s motion to dismiss the indictment in Trial Cause Number 24DCCR0361. The State argues the appeal was moot because LeBlanc had been reindicted in Trial Cause Number 24DCCR0520 and LeBlanc filed an application for a writ of habeas corpus in Trial Cause Number 24DCCR0520.
On August 14, 2024, LeBlanc filed a notice of appeal from an order denying relief on an application for a writ of habeas corpus for bond reduction in Trial Cause Number 24DCCR0520.1 The Clerk of the Court docketed the appeal from the order signed in Trial Cause Number 24DCCR0520 as Appeal Number 09-24-00283-CR. The clerk’s record filed in Appeal Number 09-24-00283-CR includes a surety bond that establishes that LeBlanc was released from custody on August 15, 2024.
“Where the premise of a habeas corpus application is destroyed by subsequent developments, the legal issues raised thereunder are rendered moot.” Hubbard v. State, 841 S.W.2d 33, 33 (Tex. App.—Houston [14th Dist.] 1992, no pet.). LeBlanc’s complaints about the trial court’s order in Trial Cause Number 24DCCR0361 would not secure his release from confinement because LeBlanc has posted bail in Trial Cause Number 24DCCR0520. “When a defendant has once given bail for his appearance in answer to a criminal charge, he shall not be required to give another bond in the course of the same criminal action except as herein provided.” Tex. Code Crim. Proc. Ann. art. 17.09; see Garcia v. State, 292 S.W.3d 146, 151 (Tex. App.—San Antonio 2009, no pet.) (Evidence of bond forfeiture was sufficient where the State reindicted the defendant under a new case number and dismissed the original cause in which the bond had been filed.).
1We take judicial notice of the appellate record in Appeal Number 09-24-00283-CR.
Accordingly, we grant the State’s motion to dismiss the appeal.
APPEAL DISMISSED.
PER CURIAM
Submitted on August 27, 2024 Opinion Delivered August 28, 2024 Do Not Publish
Before Golemon, C.J., Johnson and Chambers, JJ.