Legal Opinion
in Re Michael Speed
Texas Court of Appeals, 10th District (Waco)
Decided March 14, 2007No. 10-07-00027-CVPublished
1Opinion of the Court
IN THE
TENTH COURT OF APPEALS
No. 10-07-00027-CV
In re Michael Speed
Original Proceeding
DISSENTING Opinion
In this proceeding we have received a document from an inmate acting as his own attorney labeled “notice of appeal.” A majority of the Court has unilaterally decided that it is not a notice of appeal but is instead a petition for a writ of mandamus. Because the majority has characterized it as a mandamus against a district clerk, they have voted to dismiss it because we have no jurisdiction to issue a writ against a district clerk, except to protect our jurisdiction. But we have not given the…
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