                                     In The

                              Court of Appeals

                   Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont

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                             NO. 09-18-00221-CR
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              DARRELL JEROME DUROUSSEAU, Appellant

                                       V.

                      THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellee
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                   On Appeal from the 252nd District Court
                          Jefferson County, Texas
                         Trial Cause No. 18-29154
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                         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



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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.



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                                                    HOLLIS HORTON
                                                         Justice


Submitted on February 5, 2019
Opinion Delivered February 6, 2019
Do Not Publish

Before McKeithen, C.J., Kreger and Horton, JJ.




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