Burnches Markish Mitchell v. State

• Court: Court of Appeals of Texas
• Decided: August 27, 2020
• Docket: 07-20-00026-CR
• Status: Published

Opinion

In The Court of Appeals Seventh District of Texas at Amarillo ________________________

No. 07-20-00026-CR ________________________

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Do not publish.