Kyondreh Isaiah Brooks v. State

In The
Court of Appeals
Sixth Appellate District of Texas at Texarkana
No. 06-19-00073-CR
KYONDREH ISAIAH BROOKS, Appellant
V.
THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee
On Appeal from the 145th District Court
Nacogdoches County, Texas
Trial Court No. F1723109
Before Morriss, C.J., Burgess and Stevens, JJ.
ORDER
Appellant Kyondreh Isaiah Brooks was convicted of two counts of aggravated robbery and
was sentenced to twenty years’ imprisonment. Brooks has appealed from that conviction and the
resulting sentence. On June 24, 2019, Brooks’ court-appointed appellate counsel, G. Dean Watts,
filed an Anders 1 brief, and on June 28, 2019, Brooks filed a pro se motion for access to the appellate
record for purposes of preparing a response to his counsel’s Anders brief. Under Kelly v. State, 2
we are required to enter an order specifying the procedure to be followed to ensure Brooks’ access
to the record.
To ensure that Brooks receives a complete copy of the appellate record in a timely manner,
we instructed our clerk’s office to forward a complete paper copy of the appellate record to Brooks
at the Holliday Unit in Huntsville, Texas. We further instructed our clerk’s office to forward
copies of the digitally recorded exhibits contained in the appellate record to Brooks care of Law
Librarian Casey Hyde, Holliday Transfer Facility, 295 IH-45 North, Huntsville, Texas 77320.
Allowing fifteen days for the record to be delivered to Brooks and giving Brooks thirty days to
prepare his pro se response, we hereby set August 16, 2019, as the deadline for Brooks to file his
pro se response to his counsel’s Anders brief.
IT IS SO ORDERED.
BY THE COURT
DATE: July 2, 2019
1
See Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738 (1967).
2
Kelly v. State, 436 S.W.3d 313, 321–22 (Tex. Crim. App. 2014).
2