                            NUMBER 13-09-00392-CR

                           COURT OF APPEALS

                 THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS

                    CORPUS CHRISTI - EDINBURG
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CARLTON RAY RICHARDSON,                                                    Appellant,

                                          v.

THE STATE OF TEXAS,                                 Appellee.
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            On appeal from the Criminal District Court
                  of Jefferson County, Texas.
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                            MEMORANDUM OPINION

        Before Chief Justice Valdez and Justices Yañez and Vela
                   Memorandum Opinion Per Curiam

      Appellant, Carlton Ray Richardson, by and through his attorney, has filed a motion

to dismiss his appeal because he no longer desires to prosecute it. See TEX . R. APP. P.

42.2(a). Without passing on the merits of the case, we grant the motion to dismiss

pursuant to Texas Rule of Appellate Procedure 42.2(a) and dismiss the appeal. Having
dismissed the appeal at appellant's request, no motion for rehearing will be entertained,

and our mandate will issue forthwith. Any pending motions are dismissed as moot.



                                                      PER CURIAM



Do not publish.
See TEX . R. APP. P. 47.2(b).

Delivered and filed
the 11th day of March, 2010.




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