COURT OF APPEALS

EIGHTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS

EL PASO, TEXAS

MEMORANDUM OPINION ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF MANDAMUS

            Relator, Eric Flores, seeks a writ of mandamus to compel the El Paso County Sheriff, “discharge the [Relator] from illegal confinement.”

            This court does not have the authority to issue a writ of mandamus the Respondent in this case. See Tex.Gov’t Code Ann. § 22.221(b)(Vernon 2004). Therefore, mandamus relief is denied. We therefore deny relator’s request.

January 20, 2010                                                        

                                                                                    ANN CRAWFORD McCLURE, Justice

Before Chew, C.J., McClure, and Rivera, JJ.

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