Williams, Eric Jarrod

• Court: Court of Appeals of Texas
• Decided: December 30, 2014
• Docket: PD-1669-14
• Status: Published

Opinion

PD-1669-14

PDR#

APPEAL FROM THE 128TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT TRIAL COURT CAUSE NUMBER 080508R OF ORANGE COUNTY, TEXAS Hon. Courtney Arkeen, Judge Presiding

TRANSFERRED FROM THE 9TH COURT OF APPEALS TO 14th Case # 14-13-00650-CR

MOTION FOR EXTENSION OF TIME TO FILE A PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

PRO- SE MOTION BY ERIC WILLIAMS P.O. Box 776 Orange, Texas 77631-776 (409)365-4681 (337) 936-0773—Alternate E-mail: ericwill86.ew@gmail.com December 16, 2014 rfCL

DEC 3 0 2014

COURT OFFILED IN CRIMINAL APPEALS Abel Acosta> c,e DEC 10 20V* Abe\ Acosta, ClerK IDENTITY OF PARTIES AND COUNSEL

Appellant: ERIC JARROD WILLIAMS

Trial Counsel: Joe Alford 105 S. Market Street Orange, TX 77630 State Bar No. 1012500

Appellate COUNSEL: N/A

PRO-SE MOTIONS: Eric Jarrod Williams

Appellee: State of Texas Counsel: Phillip C. Smith, Jr. (Trial and Appeal) Orange County Assistant District Attorney 801 W Division Ave. Orange, TX 77630 State Bar No. 797460 IN THE

COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS

OF THE STATE OF TEXAS PDR #

ERIC JARROD WILLIAMS

Appellant

V.

THE STATE OF TEXAS

Appellee

Eric Jarrod Williams, Appellant below respectfully submits this Motion for an

Extension of Time to File a Petition for Discretionary Review in the above styled and

numbered causes. In support of this Motion, he shows this Honorable Court the

following:

I.

On May 15, 2013, Appellantwas convicted by a Jury Panel of the offense

Indecency With A Child By Exposure 21.11(a) (2) (A) Of the Texas Penal Code and

given a sentence of Ten years confinement in TDCJ and a $5,000 fine by the Bench

on June 14, 2013. The Bench ordered that the sentence be probated for a period of

ten years with 180 days to be served as upfront time In the County Jail as a

condition of probation and a $5000 fine. II.

On September 23, 2014, the Honorable 14th Court ofappeals denied relief for Appellant, and affirmed thejudgmentof the trial court. The Motion for Petitionfor

Discretionary Review is due on December 22, 2014.

III.

The facts relied upon to show good cause for this requested extension is as

follows:

• Appellant's attorney at the time of appeal was court appointeddue to

Appellantbeing indigent. On December 16, 2013 counsel accepted a new

job with the County Attorney's Office. Appellant was not knowledgeable

of this change until case was set for submission and wasn't aware of

counsel with drawing. 14th District Court OfAppeals never granted or

denied counsel's motion to be removed from record or was appellant aware

of this change to hire counsel. Appellant was never appointed another

replacement counsel to continue this matter.

• Appellantnow is in the phase of consulting with other attorneys for hire.

Appellant is currently handling this case on a Pro-se phase and isn't

familiar with the laws and procedures of appellant procedure. This will

require additional time to research and/or hire counsel, and file required

motions in a timely manner. Appellant does need the time to read through and review all of the court

documents and transcripts from the trial to prepare the motion for Petition

for Discretionary review.

The additional time requested is not sought solely for delay, nor sought

frivolously, but will be of genuine assistance to Appellant in preparing

Appellant's Motion Petition for Discretionary review and/or to hire

counsel.

Appellant works out of town on full timejob during the week and doesn't

have as much undivided time to consult with future counsel.

WHEREFORE, Appellant prays respectfully that the Honorable Court grant this

Motion extending the time for filing a Petition for Discretionary Review for Sixty

days(60) or that this Court grantsuchadditional time as is just and proper for Appellant

to submit motion for Petition for Discretionary Review. Respectfully submitted,

/s/ Eric Jarrod Williams

^^CkjtP^ lU> P.O. Box 776 Orange, Tx 77631-776

(409)365-4681

(337) 936-0773—Alternate

ericwill86.ew@gmail.com CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

I delivered a copy of the above and foregoing Motion to the Orange County District Attorney's Office on December 22, 2014 /s/ Eric Jarrod Williams

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