DocketNumber： 08-08-00236-CR
Filed Date： 9/11/2008
Status： Precedential
Modified Date： 9/9/2015
COURT OF APPEALS EIGHTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS EL PASO, TEXAS § § No. 08-08-00236-CR IN RE: LEO M. LOZANO , § AN ORIGINAL PROCEEDING Relator. § IN MANDAMUS § MEMORANDUM OPINION ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF MANDAMUS Relator Leo Lozano seeks a second writ of mandamus contending he has been denied his “prison gate money” in the amount of one hundred dollars. See In Re Lozano, No. 08-08-00060- CR,2008 WL 538392
(Tex.App.--El Paso 2008, orig. proceeding). He now requests that this Court issue a writ of mandamus ordering the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to issue him $100, “prison gate money” which he claims he was not provided when he was released from the Institutional Division on November 21, 2007. This Court does not have the authority to issue a writ of mandamus against the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. See TEX .GOV ’T .CODE ANN . § 22.221(a)(Vernon 2004). Therefore, mandamus relief is denied. September 11, 2008 DAVID WELLINGTON CHEW, Chief Justice Before Chew, C.J., McClure, and Carr, JJ. (Do Not Publish)