RECEIVED Eric Drake Court of Appeals PO Box 833688 Richardson, Texas 75083 APR 0 9 2015 Lisa Matz Clerk, 5th District April 9, 20 IS Fl LED IN COURT OF APPEALS HAND DELEVERED Clerk of Court APR - 9 2015 Court of Appeals Fifty District of Texas at Dallas LISA MATZ CLERK, 5th DISTRICT Commerce Street Suite 200 Dallas, Texas 75202 RE: Objection to the Court refUsal to allow oral arguments and Appellant's motion to recuse

Dear Clerk of Court: The Appellant, Eric Drake is objecting to the Court's refusal to allow oral arguments on each and every one of the 5 (five) pending appeals in this Court. As the motion to recuse that the Appellant filed in the Court today states, it is the Appellant's belief that the Court has made the Appellant, Eric Drake wait on some of his cases for nearly two years to group those cases together-to deny all of those cases. All cases pending in this Court will be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Some of the Appellant's pending cases are at a level of extremely unusual and complicated cases that combines both federal and state law that the Appellant believes that oral arguments would not only be beneficial to the Court, but particularly necessary.

Therefore, the Appellant is making his requests for oral argument on all of five pending appeals.

Furthermore, because this Court has been bias, prejudice, and racially motivated against the Appellant, he believes that the justices who have been selected to rule on his appeals should be recused, especially in the light of Justice Wright's letter and the accusations made against the Appellant and other problems over the years with justices who are set on denying anything the Appellant files in the court unless he has a white attorney who is representing him. Thus, the Appellant believes that none of the justices in this Court would be impartial to his cases.

Therefore, please accept the Appellant's motion to recuse, which the Appellant is sure the Court will deny and the Appellant's requests for oral arguments. Appellant does not see a need to remind the Court that oral arguments per the Texas Rules of Appellate Procedure is looked upon as an necessary element of the appeals process. I may be contacted at: 214-477-9288.

Yours truly

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