in Re Hollis Joseph Jackson ( 2022 )

In The
Court of Appeals
Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont
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NO. 09-22-00244-CR
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IN RE HOLLIS JOSEPH JACKSON
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Original Proceeding
Criminal District Court of Jefferson County, Texas
Trial Cause No. 01-84253
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MEMORANDUM OPINION
Hollis Joseph Jackson filed a mandamus petition through which he complains
that the trial court failed to rule on his request for a judgment nunc pro tunc awarding
credit on his sentence for “street time” spent on mandatory supervision. 1 To compel
a trial court to rule on a motion, the relator must establish that the trial court (1) had
a legal duty to rule on the motion; (2) was asked to rule on the motion; and (3) failed
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Jackson filed a procedurally defective petition. See Tex. R. App. P. 52.3.
Additionally, he failed to certify that he served a copy of the petition on the State as
the real party in interest. See Tex. R. App. P. 9.5. We use Rule 2, however, to look
beyond these deficiencies to reach an expeditious result. See Tex. R. App. P. 2.
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or refused to rule on the motion within a reasonable time. In re Henry, 525 S.W.3d
381, 382 (Tex. App.—Houston [14th Dist.] 2017, orig. proceeding). Unlike claims
for credit for pre-sentence jail confinement, errors in credit for time served on
mandatory supervision are not corrected by judgment nunc pro tunc. Compare Ex
parte Florence, 319 S.W.3d 695, 695 (Tex. Crim. App. 2010) (“Pre-sentence time
credit claims typically must be raised by a motion for judgment nunc pro tunc filed
with the clerk of the convicting trial court.”), with Ex parte Johnson, 273 S.W.3d
340, 341 (Tex. Crim. App. 2008) (granting habeas relief on claim for credit for time
served on mandatory supervision). Jackson has not shown that the trial court had a
legal duty to rule on the motion. We deny the petition for a writ of mandamus.
PETITION DENIED.
PER CURIAM
Submitted on August 16, 2022
Opinion Delivered August 17, 2022
Do Not Publish
Before Golemon, C.J., Kreger and Horton, JJ.
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