
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF TEXAS


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                                 No. 08-0335
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                     KIRK WAYNE MCBRIDE, SR., Petitioner

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 TEXAS BOARD OF PARDONS AND PAROLES, AND RESSIE OWENS, CHAIRMAN, Respondents


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                           On Petition for Review
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                                    ORDER

      1.    The case is abated until further order  of  this  Court  and  is
removed from the Court's active docket.  This  premature  appeal  is  abated
under Tex. R. App. P. 27.2, to allow the trial court to  consider  rendering
an order making the judgment final.
      Done at the City of Austin, this 9th day of January 2009.


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                                       Blake A. Hawthorne, Clerk
                                       Supreme Court of Texas


                                       By Claudia Jenks, Chief Deputy Clerk




