Opinion
08-21-00106-CR
06-30-2021
IN RE:THE STATE OF TEXAS, RELATOR.
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AN ORIGINAL PROCEEDING IN MANDAMUS
Before Rodriguez, C.J., Palafox, and Alley, JJ.
MEMORANDUM OPINION
YVONNE T. RODRIGUEZ, CHIEF JUSTICE.
The State of Texas ("Relator") has filed a petition for a writ of mandamus against the Honorable Pedro Gomez, Jr., judge of the 112th District Court of Pecos County, Texas, contending that the trial court failed to issue requested findings of fact and conclusions of law after granting a motion to suppress in Trial Cause No. P-3968-112-CR. See State v. Cullen, 195 S.W.3d 696, 700 (Tex.Crim.App. 2006)(requiring a trial court to express its findings of fact and conclusions of law when requested by a losing party after rendering a decision on a motion to suppress). The State contends the findings are necessary to allow it to prosecute its interlocutory appeal from the suppression order. That appeal is docketed in a parallel proceeding before this Court as The State of Texas v. Satdiel Jeremy Dominguez, No. 08-21-00036-CR.
On June 29, 2021, the Pecos County District Clerk filed a supplemental clerk's record containing the trial court's findings of fact and conclusions of law issued on June 23, 2021, in Trial Cause No. P-3968-112-CR. The trial court's issuance of findings of fact and conclusions of law has rendered this matter moot, since there is no longer a live controversy over the status of past due findings. See In re Caballero, 594 S.W.3d 843, 846 (Tex.App.—El Paso 2020, orig. proceeding)(mandamus may be mooted by certain trial court actions while the petition remains pending).
Because the trial court has issued the requested findings of fact and conclusions of law, we dismiss this mandamus action as moot.