TEXAS COURT OF APPEALS, THIRD DISTRICT, AT AUSTIN

NO. 03-04-00639-CR

Alvin Brown, Appellant

v.

The State of Texas, Appellee

FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF CALDWELL COUNTY, 274TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT

NO. 2003-160, HONORABLE CHARLES R. RAMSAY, JUDGE PRESIDING

M E M O R A N D U M O P I N I O N

Appellant’s motion to abate the appeal is granted. The district court shall prepare and file written findings of fact and conclusions of law regarding the voluntariness of the videotaped oral statement admitted as State’s exhibit 15. See Tex. Code Crim. Proc. Ann. art. 38.22, § 6 (West 2005); Green v. State, 906 S.W.2d 937, 939-40 (Tex. Crim. App. 1995). The findings and conclusions shall be filed in a supplemental clerk’s record no later than July 15, 2005.

Appellant’s motion to supplement the appellate record is granted. The record is ordered supplemented with copies of the audiotapes and videotapes admitted as State’s exhibits 1, 2, 14, and 15, and as defense exhibit 2.

The time for filing appellant’s brief is extended to August 12, 2005.

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                                                Jan P. Patterson, Justice

Before Chief Justice Law, Justices Patterson and Puryear

Filed: June 17, 2005

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