Travis County Sheriff's Office Senior Certified Peace Officer Dennis Tumlinson v. Carolyn Barnes ( 2015 )

December 23, 2015
IN THE THIRD COURT OF APPEALS /RECEIVED\
AUSTIN TEXAS [
DEC 2 3 2015
DENNIS TUMLINSON § Vwrowwofafpeals^
V. § 03-15-00642-CV
CAROLYN BARNES, ETAL §
MOTION FOR LEAVE TO SUPPLEMENT RECORD AND
TO EXTEND TIME FOR FILING APPELLEE'S BRIEF
TO THE HONORABLE JUDGE OF SAID COURT:
COMES NOW, CAROLYN BARNES, hereinafter referred to as
BARNES, and files this motion for leave to supplement the Clerk's Record
and to extend time for filing Appellee's Brief, and in support thereof would
show the court as follows:
1. On December 9, 2015, Barnes filed a motion for extension of
time to file the appellee's brief because she was still awaiting arrival of the
clerk and court reporter's record, which the Clerk's Office stated they
mailed on December 4, 2015. Barnes received the CD on December 10,
2015, the same day that she received a very disturbing letter via email from
Jeffrey Kyle returning all her documents recently filed in the Third Court
and the trial court.
2. On December 9, 2015, when Barnes requested an extension of
time to file the Appellee's Brief until December 23, 2015, she could not
have anticipated the email from Jeffrey Kyle on December 10,2015. It took
Barnes the remainder of the week to investigate and respond to Jeffrey
Kyle's unilateral actions outside the due course of law. Barnes secured
Orders from the Administrative Judge and timely responded to the
accusations of Jeffrey Kyle without any benefit of substantive due process
on December 17,2015.
3. It was only then that Barnes was able to begin going through
the CD of the record to insert the cites into Appellee's Brief. There are no
hyperlinks that work in the CD and Barnes literally has to scroll through
every page. The CD is not even a searchable pdf. In going through the
tedious process, Barnes discovered many missing documents—some due to
lack of designation and some due to oversight or miscommunication. There
is no way that Barnes could have anticipated that there would be so many
gaps in the Clerk's Record. Barnes immediately drafted a letter to the
District Clerk requesting a supplementation ofthe record. A true and correct
copy of the letter is attached hereto as Exhibit A.
4. When Barnes started going through the record, she discovered
for the first time, the letter that was hand-delivered to the trial Judge by
Appellant's counsel requesting the court reporter's record. Barnes was not
ever served with a copy of that letter that was hand-delivered to the trial
Judge. Neither Appellant's attorney nor the Judge made Barnes aware of
this letter.
5. Further, as Barnes went through the Clerk's Record, Barnes
discovered for the first time, a letter to the Clerk from Appellant's counsel
designating matters to be included in the record. Neither Appellant's
counsel nor the Clerk notified Barnes of this designation or sought Barnes'
designation of matters to be included in the record on appeal. As is shown
in the letter attached, there are many documents that were not designated for
inclusion that will support the Judge's decision in this matter. These matters
include Barnes' Brief in Support of Response to Motion to Dismiss filed on
August 14, 2015, Plaintiffs Objections, Motion to Strike and Response to
Travis County Defendants' Late-Filed Supplement to Third Motion to
Dismiss filed on September 8, 2015, and Barnes' Brief on Constitutional
Rights filed on September 8,2015.
6. The missing documents were a combination of non-designation
and oversight because Barnes does see the designation of the Plaintiffs
Objections, Motion to Strike and Response to the Travis County Defendants'
Late-Filed Supplement to the Third Motion to Dismiss filed on September 8,
2015 listed in Appellant's designation letter; however, it is not in the C.R.
The Appellee's Briefs were not designated by Appellant for inclusion in the
record, but were documents considered by the trial judge in reaching her
decision and, in fairness, should be included in the C.R.
7. Barnes is filing this motion for leave to supplement the record
and for an extension of time to file the brief in good faith and not for
purposes of delay, but so that justice may be done.
8. The Brief is due in three days and as soon as the Clerk provides
the supplemental record, Barnes should be able to file the Brief within 24
hours thereafter. The Brief is ready to file and the places for the cites are
bracketed and just needing the volume and page number.
9. Tumlinson certainly will not be harmed by the delay because
Barnes has been foreclosed from appealing the summary dismissal of the
other Travis County defendants in this case due to the refusal of the trial
court to grant Barnes' motion to sever claims so they can be appeal that was
filed back in September and set for hearing in October and November
without action by the Court.
10. This case cannot proceed in the trial court until the appellate
court takes action. The trial court has failed and refused to sever the
dismissed parties from the suit so that Plaintiff can appeal the summary
dismissal of those defendants under an abuse of Chapter 13 Tex. R. Civ.
Proc. Plaintiff is being hindered from appealing the adverse rulings of the
trial court, while Tumlinson is allowed an interlocutory appeal. This is
patently unfair when the abuserand criminal is employed by the government
and can destroy all the evidence of his crime and the malicious, violent
assault on Barnes. This assault was in broad daylight in the Travis County
Courthouse clearly captured on the security video cameras. Despite Barnes
securing an immediate Order from a District Judge to preserve and protect
that video recording that would prove the truth, these State employees
destroyed the video anyway. Despite numerous open records requests,
letters and packets to four separate grand juries that were intercepted by the
State employees, and requests under the freedom of information act, all
discovery was denied to Barnes in both the malicious prosecution and in the
civil case which is now being appealed. Barnes served discovery but the
biased trial court allowed all the defendants to merely ignore the discovery
requests. The trial court even refused to hear the motions to compel
discovery.
11. Due to the continuing criminal conspiracy, these appeals are
much more involved that regular appeals and require much more work to
brief and present. In a normal case, the parties will have been allowed some
semblance of substantive due process and would have been afforded the due
course of law and equal rights, but Barnes has been deprived of all rights
secured by the Texas Bill of Rights for over five years now. Barnes has
even been deprived of any right to file a petition to redress these grievances
through declaratory judgment and prospective injunctive relief. The trial
court dismissed all the defendants under the false pretense that all these
criminal offenders have absolute sovereign immunity to violate the Texas
Bill of Rights.
12. Barnes timely filed her notice of appeal from the summary
dismissal of the other Travis County defendants, but is not being allowed to
proceed with those appeals. It is patently unfair to allow this interlocutory
appeal while depriving Barnes of any rights to appeal. This not only violates
equal protection under the law, it also violates substantive due process and
the due course of law. Additionally, the Clerk ofthe Third Court of Appeals
now takes the position that even though Barnes timely filed her notices of
appeal and the trial court refused her request to sever the claims so they
could be timely appealed, that Barnes will now be forever barred from
appealing these summary dismissals without any semblance of substantive
due process or the due course of law. Barnes was literally deprived of any
discovery or trial. All of the claims and causes of action were summarily
dismissed under Rule 91a, Chapter 13 or 27, or by summary judgment
without discovery, and then to really make sure Barnes was forever
outlawed and disfranchised, Barnes was summarily deemed to be a
vexatious litigant under Chapter 11, again without any substantive due
process or jury trial. Thesewere all malicious abuses ofprocess, but without
any reasonable or meaningful appellate remedies there can be no rule of law.
Barnes was summarily deprived of any reasonable or meaningful avenue to
vindicate the gross and repeated violation of her rights guaranteed as forever
inviolate by the Texas Constitution, just as she has been for over five years.
All without any appellate remedy or oversight.
13. The brief is due on December 23, 2015. Barnes did not obtain
the CDuntil the 10th and on the same day, shewas hit with a shocking letter
from Jeffrey Kyle that took until December 17,2015 to obtain the orders and
fully respond to his letter and unwarranted return of Barnes' timely and
properly filed documents.
14. Barnes promptly notified the Clerk of the necessary
supplementation by letter dated December 18, 2015 and emailed to the
specific Clerk handling the supplementation on December 19,2015. Barnes
believes the Clerk will be filing the supplementation in due haste.
15. Barnes is not allowed to access any internal records of any of
the courts. Barnes has been left indigent as a direct and proximate result of
the malicious actions of the criminal conspiracy and the complete
suspension of the laws, Constitution, and writ of habeas corpus for the past
five years.
16. To be timely, the brief should be mailed to the Court today;
however, without the supplemental record, Barnes is unable to properly cite
to the record on appeal in the brief as required by the rules of appellate
procedure.
17. Barnes is requesting an extension of time for 7 additional days
due to the intervening holidays because until the supplemental CD arrives,
Barnes will be unable to complete the brief. This is a time consuming
process with such a voluminous record.
18. This will cause no harm or delay to the other side because when
Barnes filed her appeals and motion to sever to make the summary
dismissals final, the trial court failed and refused to sever the summary
dismissal orders and parties. Thus, Barnes is not able to appeal those
companion decisions that were made and heard at the same time as
Tumlinson's motion to dismiss under Chapter 13.
19. Thus, the Appellee's Brief is due on December 23, 2015.
Appellant does not agree to this request for extension of time and
Appellant's counsel opposes this request.
20. Barnes is requesting an extension of time to December 30,2015
to allow for any closing of offices during the intervening holiday. Barnes
will make every effort to file the brief earlier if the supplemental record is
made available immediately. Once the supplemental record is supplied,
Barnes can file the brief within 24 hours if the post office is open due to the
intervening holidays.
21. Barnes is requesting an extension of time for 7 additional days.
This is her second request for an extension of time. The first extension of
time was for 14 days and Barnes now seeks an additional 7 day extension of
time to allow the supplementation of the record because of the week it took
to respond to the unexpected letter and return of documents from Jeffrey
Kyle and anticipation of office closing and post office closing during the
intervening holiday.
22. This request is being made in good faith and not merely for
delay. BARNES prays for such other and further relief to which she may be
entitled, whether at law or in equity.
Respectfully submitted,
Carolyn Barnes
419 Indian Trail
Leander, Texas 78641
Barnes.legalguidance@gmail.com
281-467-8681
JURAT
COUNTY OF WILLIAMSON
STATE OF TEXAS
Pursuant to Texas Civil Practices and Remedies Code Sec. 132.001, I,
Carolyn Barnes, do hereby swear and affirm that the facts stated above are
true and correct based on personal knowledge.
I aver that "My name is Carolyn Barnes, by date of birth is January 12,
1957, and my address is 419 Indian Trail, Leander, Texas 78641 in the
United States of America. I swear under penalty of perjury that all the facts
stated herein are within my personal knowledge and true and correct.
I have read the foregoing Motion for Extension of Time to File the
Appellee's Brief and the facts stated within that are not verified by the
record are true and correct to the best ofher knowledge.
SWORN TO BEFORE ME ON THIS 19th day of December, 2015.
By:_
Carolyn Barnes
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CERTIFICATE OF CONFERENCE
Barnes has conferred with opposing counsel sending several emails to
him and he is not in agreement. In fact, Barnes had previously understood
that he had agreed to her first request for extension of time when in fact he
had not agreed. After his venomous written opposition filed with this court,
Barnes went back and re-read his email and in fact he had not agreed.
Barnes had misread his email in her haste to get the motion for extension of
time filed with the court in a timely fashion. Barnes could not imagine any
legitimate reason to oppose a reasonable request when she did not have
access to the record and he knew Barnes would need to cite to the record in
her brief. Anticipating a quick response of agreement, that is what Barnes
saw when she received his email response. Barnes now stands corrected.
He stated "we do object to an extension." Therefore, Appellant's counsel
does not agree to any requests for extension of time.
YUY"
Carolyn Barnes
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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
By my signature above, I hereby certify that a true and correct copy of
the foregoing document has been served pursuant to Rule 21a of the Texas
Rules of Civil Procedure on all counsel of record on this the 21st day of
December 2015.
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Carolyn Barnes
419 Indian Trail
Leander.TX 78641
December 18,2015
Trish Winkler
Civil Appeals Clerk H
Travis County District Clerk's Office
P.O. Box 679003
Austin, Texas 78767-9003
RE: COA No. 03-15-642-CV Dennis Tumlinson v. Carolyn Barnes
Cause No. D-l-GN-15-000877
Carolyn Barnes v. Texas Attorney General, et al
Dear Trish:
I am in receipt of the record you prepared for the defendant and filed witib the Third
Court of Appeals in the above cause. There were several matters left out of the record
designationthat are necessary for mis appeal. Would you please prepare a supplemental
Clerk's Record as soon as possible and file it with the Third Court of Appeals. Please
include the following documents in the supplemental record:
First Amended Answer filed July 8,201S;
Plaintiff's Motion to Enter a Default Judgment against DENNIS TUMLINSON filed on
July 9,2015. (There were severalmotions to enter defaultjudgment filed on mat date, but
I only need the one concerning DENNIS TUMLINSON);
Noticed ofUnequal TreatmentUnder the Law filed on July 9,201S;
Motion to Remove Complex Case from Central Docket filed July 9,2015;
Plaintiffs Motion for Continuance filed on July 10,2015.
Plaintiff's Supplemental Objections, Motion to Strike, and Motion to Quash Travis
County filed July 15,2015;
Plaintiff's Supplemental Notice ofUnequalTreatment filed on July 20,2015;
Sworn Statement Under Declaration of PenaltyofPerjury filed on July 27,2015;
Statement Under Declaration ofPenalty ofPerjury filed on August 12,2015;
Plaintiff's Briefin Support ofResponse to Motion to Dismiss filed August 14/18,2015;
Defendant's Motion to Stay Discovery filed August 19,2015;
Continuing Objections filed on August 20,2015;
Plaintiffs Third Supplemental and Continuing Notice of Unequal Treatment filed on
August 24,2015;
Plaintiffs Objections, Motion to Strike, Motion to Quash and Response to Travis County
Late-filedSupplementto Third Motionto Dismiss filed September8,2015;
Briefon Constitutional Rights filed on September8,2015;
All of these documents are needed for appeal in the above entitled cause and request is
made that you file the Clerk's Record in the Third Court of Appeals at your earliest
convenience.
We previously filed the Affidavit ofInabilityto Pay Costs on Appeal.
If you require anything further from me, if there are any deficiencies or defects in these
documents or this filing procedure, please advise immediately.
Thank you for your time and attention in this matter. If you have any problems,
concerns, or questions, please contact me.
TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE
Very truly yours,
Cto/vi/r
Carolyn Barnes
Barnes.legalguidance@gmaii.com
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