Burnches Markish Mitchell v. State

In The
Court of Appeals
Seventh District of Texas at Amarillo
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No. 07-20-00026-CR
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BURNCHES MARKISH MITCHELL, APPELLANT
V.
THE STATE OF TEXAS, APPELLEE
On Appeal from the 372nd District Court
Tarrant County, Texas
Trial Court No. 1493925D; Honorable Scott Wisch, Presiding
August 27, 2020
ORDER ON MOTION FOR ACCESS TO SEALED RECORD
Before QUINN, C.J., and PIRTLE and DOSS, JJ.
Appellant, Burnches Markish Mitchell, appeals his conviction for capital murder 1
and sentence to life imprisonment. Now pending before this court is Appellant’s Motion
to Unseal the Sealed Volumes of the Reporter’s Records wherein Appellant requests
1 TEX. PENAL CODE ANN. § 19.03(a)(2) (West Supp. 2019).
access to the sealed volumes of the reporter’s record for the purposes of appeal. We
grant the motion.
Accordingly, we order the clerk of this court to make the sealed volumes of the
reporter’s record available to the attorneys of record through the Attorney Portal
(https://attorneyportal.txcourts.gov) in a format that is accessible only to the attorneys of
record. Appellate counsel may review the contents of the sealed record but may not print
or copy any of its contents. The parties and their counsel are ordered not to disclose or
disseminate any information contained in the sealed record to any other person or entity.
Should the parties address any arguments related to evidence contained in the sealed
record, the parties are ordered to note on the cover page of their respective briefs the
following: “BRIEF CONTAINS SEALED MATERIALS.” The clerk shall remove access to
the sealed record from the Attorney Portal after submission of the appeal to the court.
It is so ordered.
Per Curiam
Do not publish.
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