Dameon Laws v. State ( 2019 )

IN THE TENTH COURT OF APPEALS No. 10-19-00305-CR DAMEON LAWS, Appellant v. THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee From the 82nd District Court Robertson County, Texas Trial Court No. 09-03-18640-CR MEMORANDUM OPINION Dameon Laws was apparently convicted of aggravated assault approximately 10 years ago and remains in prison. In his notice of appeal filed on September 3, 2019, Laws contends the trial court issued an order on August 26, 20191 which Laws wants to appeal. 1Laws filed new notices of appeal to an order purported to be signed on September 10, 2019. We have docketed those appeals as 10-19-00336-CR and 10-19-00337-CR. Those appeals remain pending and will be addressed in due course. We have nothing to indicate the trial court issued any order on that specific date. In a document attached to the notice of appeal, Laws seeks to consolidate this appeal with an appeal he filed at the same time from a conviction in another county. Laws asserts that he is striving to be a good citizen while in prison, is going to school to receive a degree from Lee College while in prison, was on the A & B honor roll, was on the Dean's List for the Summer of 2019, and has worked in the prison system in the kitchen since 2013. As relief, he asks this Court to reduce his sentence to time served and reduce court cost and attorney’s fees to a reasonable amount.2 While we applaud Laws for taking the opportunity to better himself while in prison, we have no jurisdiction to grant any type of post-conviction relief. See TEX. CODE CRIM. PROC. ANN. art. 11.05 (listing the courts which have jurisdiction of post-conviction relief; appellate courts not included). Thus, we have no jurisdiction to grant the relief Laws requests. Accordingly, this appeal is dismissed and all motions which have been filed herein are dismissed as moot. A motion for rehearing may be filed within 15 days after the judgment of this Court is rendered. See TEX. R. APP. P. 49.1. If Laws desires to have the decision of this Court reviewed by filing a petition for discretionary review, that petition must be filed 2From the document filed with this Court, it appears that some of the cost or attorney’s fees may have been ordered to be repaid as restitution. Laws v. State Page 2 with the Court of Criminal Appeals within 30 days after either the day this Court's judgment was rendered or the day the last timely motion for rehearing was overruled by this Court. See TEX. R. APP. P. 68.2(a). TOM GRAY Chief Justice Before Chief Justice Gray, Justice Davis, and Justice Neill Appeal dismissed Motions dismissed Opinion delivered and filed September 25, 2019 Do not publish [CR25] Laws v. State Page 3