Opinion
13-18-00030-CR
01-13-2022
MONICA MELISSA PATTERSON, Appellant, v. THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee.
Do not publish. Tex.R.App.P. 47.2(b).
On appeal from the 370th District Court of Hidalgo County, Texas.
Before Justices Benavides, Tijerina, and Silva
ORDER
PER CURIAM
This cause is before the Court on the Appellant's motion for access to sealed records, namely volume 27 of the reporter's record. On October 17, 2017, the date of the hearing, the trial court ordered the record of the hearing sealed.
Appellant now requests a copy of the sealed portion of the record to aid in the litigation of Appellant's Writ of Habeas Corpus. Accordingly, we hereby GRANT the motion and order the Clerk of the Court to provide access to volumes 27 of the reporter's record to the attorneys for the Appellant and State, if they should request it.
The State and Appellant's counsel are ordered to abide by the sealing order of the trial court, and counsel is further ordered to treat the record as confidential and to safeguard it as a sealed record. Counsel is further ordered to maintain the confidentiality of the information contained in this sealed record and is prohibited from disseminating the sensitive information contained within the sealed record to any person other than for legitimate purposes related to Appellant's Writ of Habeas Corpus.