Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, 2016

in Re Juan Enriquez

in Re Juan Enriquez
Court of Civil Appeals of Texas · Decided October 28, 2016

in Re Juan Enriquez

Opinion

IN THE COURT OF f\PPEAU^;- ' v-- J- FOURTH DISTRICT OF :r SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS ' ' ' ^ -i:'• ====================^f^Qj 26 PH12:38 No. O^f-I 6-00624-CR

In re OUAN ENRIQUEZ, Rel'atq? ij-j j. r

Original Mandamus Proceeding from Karnes County, Texas St Judicial District, No. 3B62-G, Ex Parte Juan Enriquez Honorable Donna S. Rayes, Presiding

SUPPLEMENT TO RELATOR'S REPLV TO RESPONDENT'S RESPONSE TO ORIGINAL PETITION FOR URIT OF MANDAMUS TO THE HONORABLE JUDGES OF THE FOURTH COURT OF APPEALS: Juan Enriquez, Relator, files his Supplement to his Relator's Reply to State's Response to Petition for Mandamus, shouing the Court as follouis:

I. REASON FOR SUPPijEMENT Relator, this date, October 20, 2016, received the State's Response. The State misrepresents the historical facts, the claim raised, and ignores the controlling lau. These matters need to be corrected.

II. STATE MISREPRESENTS "PUEADED FACTS" AS "AUUEGED cGaims" The State misrepresents that Relator claims he is "currently incarcerated without trial or conviction." State's Response, at 3.

Relator is not making claims but presenting historical facts that he is imprisoned in the State penitentiary without trial or conviction because his 1966 death penalty judgment is void and the governor's proclamation on uhich he is imprisoned is not a court judgment.

Relator claims that because as a matter of fact he is held in prison uiithout a judgment, he is entitled as a pretrial detainee to be removed from prison to the county jail and then to a determination whether he is entitled to retrial or to release.

III. STATE MISREPRESENTS "NO JUDGMENT" CLIAIM AS AN "INVALllD SENTENCE" CIJAIM The State misrepresents Relator's "no judgment claim" as a claim "that he is not validly sentenced" to argue that the claim has been previously presented when in fact the no judgment claim could not be made until 2013 when the Court of Criminal Appeals (CCA) accepted the holdings from the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (Fifth Circuit) that the governor is not a state court and his proclamation is not a court judgment." Hartfield v. Thaler, ^fOS 5.lil.3d 234 (Tex.Cr.App. 2013).

IV. STATE MISREPRESENTS CliAIM PREVIOUSUV REFUSED FOUR TIMES The State misrepresents that Relator's claim "has been heard and refused on four separate occasions: Thus, ENRIQUEZ'S continued argument that he is not validly sentenced has been heard and refuted on four separate occasions, by Judge Rayes on November 4, 2009, by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in both the hlhan and Stanley decisions cited above, and by the Fourth Court itself in cause number 04-10-00071-CR. It is res judicata, yet ENRIQUEZ continues to file instrument after instrument seeking relief under those very same theories of law.

There is no need for Judge Rayes, nor any other valid jurisdiction to hear this argument.

State's Response, at 5.

The State's assertion is not true. The 2009 action uias a nunc pro tune proceeding that did not involve either the validity of the conviction or of the commutation. The trial court explained it did not have jurisdiction to do anything but to correct clerical errors and thus uas limited to pronounce the life sentence proclaimed by the governor.

On appeal, this Court held that "[bjecause the trial court granted a nunc pro tune that modified the judgment previously entered, the nunc pro tune entry uas erroneous." This Court vacated the 2009 sentence and reinstated the 1966 death penalty judgment subject to the governor's 1972 proclamation. This Court noted it mas not necessary to pronounce sentence after commutation, citing Uhan v. State, A-85 S.lJ.2d 275 (Tex.Cr.App. 1972) and Stanley State, ifSO S.lil.2d 028 (Tex.Cr.App. 1972).

Uhan and Stanley involved bifurcated trials where the error was penalty error. These cases had a valid non-death penalty conviction from which the governor could commute the offending death penalty. Relator's trial involves a one-stage trial where a non-death penalty judgment does not exist.

Relator's case involves a conviction erased because it was rendered under statutes adjudged unconstitutional and a void verdict because it is based on an unauthorized sentence, namely, the death penalty, which error renders the verdict void at its inception. The law on this issue is in the habeas application and is also found in the Advisory presented to the CCA on Duly 25, 2016, attached hereto.

The no judgemnt error could not be raised prior to the Hartfield decision because all previous efforts to challenge the Relator's detention uere treated by the trial court as a post-conviction challenge uihich the trial court did not have jurisdiction to hear as a successive application and which the CCA did not address in the Hartfield case or in this case since there was no conviction. Hartfield, supra, at 2A0.

Indeed, in the case at bar, the trial court treated the habeas application as a post-conviction application. The CCA, as in Hartfield, undertook its own review of the application and determined the Court did not have authority to act without a conviction and returned the application and related documents for processsing as a pretrial application which by definition the CCA determined Relator is a pretrial detainee as i t did Hartfield.

V. PRAYER IdHEREFORE, PREMISES CONSIDERED, Relator prays that his petition for writ of mandamus be granted and that the Court orders the Respondent to set Relator's 11.08 habeas application for hearing, to appoint counsel, to determine whether Relator is entitled to release, and, if not, to set the indictment for trial within 30 days from receipt of the Court's order.

Respectfully submitted,

)CJ-Michael 2664 FM 2054 Tennessee Colony, TX 75886 Uerification I, Juan Enriquez, declare under penalty of perjury, that the statement in the foregoing supplement are true and correct, Executed on October 20, 2016.

lan Enrj5£|iJ^2>«®^ Certificate of Service I, Juan Enriquez, certify that a correct copy of the^ foregoing supplement was served by placing same in the United States mail, postage prepaid, on October 20, 2016, addressed to Rene Pena, District Attorney, 1327 3rd Street, Floresville, Texas VBII'f and to Honorable Donna S. Rayes, Judge, Gist District Court, 1 Courthouse Circle Drive, Suite 206, Jourdanton, Texas 78026. 'V I /•"zn !j-i |W THE ::: Coui?r CRimiM^VU PPe"#=sl_1> OF ~ Ab'^! Ar.'osta. ' •i'^r- \jo.

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