in Re Commitment of Jose Morales

• Court: Court of Appeals of Texas
• Decided: August 15, 2013
• Docket: 09-12-00394-CV
• Status: Published

Opinion

In The

Court of Appeals Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont _____________________

NO. 09-12-00394-CV _____________________

IN RE COMMITMENT OF JOSE MORALES

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On Appeal from the 435th District Court Montgomery County, Texas Trial Cause No. 01-02-01008 CV __________________________________________________________________

MEMORANDUM OPINION

In an appeal from an order entered in a sexually-violent-predator proceeding,

we are asked to address whether we possess appellate jurisdiction over an order

changing the entity that approves where Jose Morales is required to reside. We

conclude that the trial court’s order is not appealable, and we also conclude that

mandamus relief on the issues Morales raises is not warranted. Accordingly, we

dismiss the appeal for lack of jurisdiction.

Recently, in In re Commitment of Cortez, we addressed the same issues as

set forth in Morales’s brief and concluded that we did not have appellate

1 jurisdiction over his issues. No. 09-12-00385-CV, 2013 WL 3270613, at *2 (Tex.

App.—Beaumont June 27, 2013, no pet. h.). We also considered whether Cortez

raised issues entitling him to mandamus relief. See id. at **2-6.

For the same reasons stated in Cortez, we conclude that we lack appellate

jurisdiction to review the trial court’s order dated July 26, 2012, and that Morales

has not demonstrated that he should receive mandamus relief. Accordingly, we

dismiss Morales’s appeal.

APPEAL DISMISSED.

___________________________ HOLLIS HORTON Justice

Submitted on July 10, 2013 Opinion Delivered August 15, 2013 Before Gaultney, Kreger, and Horton, JJ.