Parker v. State

ABATEMENT ORDER

James Dean Parker pled guilty in October 2000, without benefit of a plea bargain agreement, to the felony offense of possession of methamphetamine. He was sentenced to eighteen months imprisonment in a state jail facility. His retained lawyer timely filed a notice of appeal.

The clerk’s record was filed in January 2001. However, Parker’s attorney, John M. Barron, failed to order the reporter’s record. Our attempts through correspondence with Barron were unsuccessful in this regard. Consequently, the appeal proceeded on the clerk’s record alone. Tex.R.App. P. 37.3(c). We informed…