Document Info

DocketNumber: 01-19-00585-CR

Filed Date: 8/20/2019

Status: Precedential

Modified Date: 8/21/2019

  • Opinion issued August 20, 2019
    In The
    Court of Appeals
    For The
    First District of Texas
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    NO. 01-19-00585-CR
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    IN RE LONNIE HENRY RECTOR, JR., Relator
    Original Proceeding on Petition for Writ of Mandamus
    MEMORANDUM OPINION
    Relator, Lonnie Henry Rector, Jr., incarcerated and proceeding pro se, has
    filed an application for a writ of mandamus seeking to compel the respondent district
    judge to rule on relator’s motion for forensic DNA testing, pursuant to Chapter 64
    of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure.1
    1
    The underlying case is The State of Texas v. Lonnie Henry Rector, Jr., Cause No.
    714415, in the 262nd Judicial District Court of Harris County, Texas, the Honorable
    Lori Chambers Gray presiding. This Court previously dismissed for want of
    jurisdiction relator’s two prior mandamus petitions. See In re Rector, No.
    01-18-01144-CR, 
    2019 WL 302785
    (Tex. App.—Houston [1st Dist.] Jan. 24, 2019,
    We construe relator’s application as a petition for a writ of mandamus and
    deny it. See TEX. R. APP. P. 52.8(a), (d).
    PER CURIAM
    Panel consists of Chief Justice Radack and Justices Keyes and Higley.
    Do not publish. TEX. R. APP. P. 47.2(b).
    orig. proceeding) (per curiam) (mem. op., not designated for publication); In re
    Rector, No. 01-18-01102-CR, 
    2018 WL 6694792
    (Tex. App.—Houston [1st Dist.]
    Dec. 20, 2018, orig. proceeding) (per curiam) (mem. op., not designated for
    publication).
    2