Opinion
09-22-00038-CV
03-10-2022
IN RE COMMITMENT OF RAYMOND GLENN SCOTT
Submitted on March 9, 2022
On Appeal from the 435th District Court Montgomery County, Texas Trial Cause No. 11-06-06579-CV
Before Golemon, C.J., Horton and Johnson, JJ.
MEMORANDUM OPINION
PER CURIAM
Raymond Glenn Scott filed a notice of appeal from a post-judgment civil commitment order denying Scott's request to be transferred to less restrictive housing. On February 9, 2022, we advised the parties, by letter, that the order does not appear to be appealable. We asked the parties to respond to our jurisdictional inquiry by providing us with any rule or statute they claimed could be applied to Scott's appeal and explain how those provisions, if any, gave this Court jurisdiction to consider an appeal of the order. In response, Scott asked the Court to allow the appeal to proceed as a permissive appeal. See generally Tex. R. App. P. 28.3.
While the trial court retains jurisdiction during the periods that a civil commitment judgment remains in effect, we lack appellate jurisdiction over interlocutory orders signed after the judgment in the civil-commitment case becomes final. See In re Commitment of Welsh, No. 09-21-00139-CV, 2021 WL 2583422, at *1 (Tex. App.-Beaumont June 24, 2021, no pet.) (mem. op.); In re Commitment of Bohannan, No. 09-20-00260-CV, 2021 WL 1134307, at *1 (Tex. App.-Beaumont Mar. 25, 2021, pet. denied) (mem. op.). This matter also does not comply with the requirements for a permissive appeal. See Tex. R. App. P. 28.3.
We deny Scott's motion and dismiss the appeal for lack of jurisdiction. See Tex. R. App. P. 42.3(a), 43.2(f).
APPEAL DISMISSED.