In The Court of Appeals Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont ____________________ NO. 09-18-00221-CR ____________________ DARRELL JEROME DUROUSSEAU, Appellant V. THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee ________________________________________________________________________ On Appeal from the 252nd District Court Jefferson County, Texas Trial Cause No. 18-29154 ________________________________________________________________________ MEMORANDUM OPINION Darrell Jerome Durousseau appealed his conviction for engaging in organized criminal activity. See Tex. Penal Code Ann. § 71.02 (West Supp. 2018). Before we issued an opinion, Durousseau’s counsel filed a motion to permanently abate the appeal. The motion is supported by an e-mail from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice confirming that Durousseau died on January 2, 2019, while in its

custody. No opinion or mandate has been issued in the appeal. We therefore permanently abate this appeal. Tex. R. App. P. 7.1(a)(2).

APPEAL PERMANENTLY ABATED.

________________________________ HOLLIS HORTON Justice

Submitted on February 5, 2019 Opinion Delivered February 6, 2019 Do Not Publish Before McKeithen, C.J., Kreger and Horton, JJ.