Ex Parte Jose Manuel Montejo Gomez

Fourth Court of Appeals San Antonio, Texas August 15, 2022

No. 04-22-00488-CR

EX PARTE Jose Manuel Montejo GOMEZ

From the County Court, Kinney County, Texas Trial Court No. 10450CR Honorable Dennis Powell, Judge Presiding

ORDER On August 1, 2022, appellant Jose Manuel Montejo Gomez filed a notice of appeal challenging the trial court’s order denying his pretrial application for writ of habeas corpus. On August 10, 2022, the Kinney County District Clerk filed the clerk’s record, but the clerk’s record did not include a copy of the trial court’s certification of the defendant’s right to appeal as required by Rule 25.2 of the Texas Rules of Appellate Procedure. See TEX. R. APP. P. 25.2 (requiring trial court's certification of defendant's right of appeal “each time it enters a judgment of guilt or other appealable order”); see also Ex parte Tarango, 116 S.W.3d 201, 203 (Tex. App.—El Paso 2003, no pet.) (explaining that “order denying habeas corpus relief is an appealable order within the meaning of Rule 25.2(a)(2)”).

We therefore order the Kinney County District Clerk to file a supplemental clerk’s record with a copy of the trial court’s certification of the defendant’s right to appeal by September 6, 2022. See TEX. R. APP. P. 34.5(c)(1) (authorizing appellate court to direct trial court clerk to file supplement containing items omitted from clerk's record), (2) (providing that where appellate court orders trial court to prepare and file certification of right to appeal, trial court clerk must “prepare, certify, and file in the appellate court a supplemental clerk's record”).

_________________________________ Luz Elena D. Chapa, Justice

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court on this 15th day of August, 2022.

___________________________________ Michael A. Cruz, Clerk of Court