Donald Nolan Lehman v. State

• Court: Court of Appeals of Texas
• Decided: April 2, 2020
• Docket: 05-19-01367-CR
• Status: Published

Opinion

Order entered April 2, 2020

In The Court of Appeals Fifth District of Texas at Dallas

No. 05-19-01367-CR

DONALD NOLAN LEHMAN, Appellant

V.

THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee

On Appeal from the Criminal District Court No. 7 Dallas County, Texas Trial Court Cause No. F18-76726-Y

ORDER

Before the Court is the March 31, 2020 motion of appellate counsel April

Smith to withdraw as counsel. We GRANT the motion and DIRECT the Clerk to

remove April Smith as appellant’s counsel of record.

We ORDER the trial court to appoint new counsel to represent appellant in

this appeal. We ORDER the trial court to transmit a supplemental clerk’s record

containing the order appointing new counsel to this Court within THIRTY DAYS

of the date of this order. We DIRECT the Clerk to send copies of this order to the Honorable Chika

Anyiam, Presiding Judge, Criminal District Court No. 7; to April Smith; and to the

Dallas County District Attorney’s Office.

We ABATE this appeal to allow the trial court to comply with this order.

We will reinstate the appeal when we receive the order appointing new counsel.

/s/ ROBERT D. BURNS, III CHIEF JUSTICE