                           NUMBER 13-12-00328-CR

                           COURT OF APPEALS

                   THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS

                     CORPUS CHRISTI - EDINBURG
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                EX PARTE DIMAS RIOS DE LEON
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             On appeal from the 275th District Court
                   of Hidalgo County, Texas.
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                         MEMORANDUM OPINION
             Before Chief Justice Valdez and Justices Garza and Vela
                        Memorandum Opinion Per Curiam

       Appellant, Dimas Rios de Leon, filed a notice of appeal seeking to challenge an

order denying a post-conviction writ of habeas corpus. On May 16, 2012, the Clerk of

this Court notified appellant that it appeared that the order from which the appeal was

taken was not an appealable order, and requested correction of this defect within ten

days or the appeal would be dismissed. Appellant has failed to respond to the Court=s

directive.
       Jurisdiction to grant post-conviction habeas corpus relief in felony cases rests

exclusively with the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. TEX. CODE CRIM. PROC. ANN.

art. 11.07, § 5 (Vernon Supp. 2011); Bd. of Pardons & Paroles ex rel. Keene v. Court of

Appeals for the Eighth Dist., 910 S.W.2d 481, 483 (Tex. Crim. App. 1995); In re McAfee,

53   S.W    .3d   715,     717–18   (Tex.   App.—Houston      [1st   Dist.]   2001,   orig.

proceeding). Therefore, we are without jurisdiction to grant the requested relief.

       The appeal is DISMISSED FOR WANT OF JURISDICTION.



                                                       PER CURIAM


Do not publish.
TEX. R. APP. P. 47.2(b).
Delivered and filed the
19th day of July, 2012.




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