in Re Kenneth Fields and the Office of the State Counsel for Offenders

In The

Court of Appeals

Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont

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NO. 09-09-00202-CV

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IN RE KENNETH FIELDS and THE OFFICE OF THE

STATE COUNSEL FOR OFFENDERS

Original Proceeding

MEMORANDUM OPINION

Kenneth Fields and the Office of the State Counsel for Offenders ("SCFO") filed a petition for writ of mandamus to compel the trial court to grant his counsel's motion to withdraw and to appoint non-SCFO counsel to represent Fields in Fields's appeal of a sexually violent predator commitment order. We deny the requested relief.

Fields is appealing an order committing Fields as…