                                      In The

                                Court of Appeals
                    Ninth District of Texas at Beaumont
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                              NO. 09-12-00403-CV
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        IN RE COMMITMENT OF RICHARD DARREN GOODWIN

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                On Appeal from the 435th District Court
                      Montgomery County, Texas
                    Trial Cause No. 05-06-04904 CV
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                          MEMORANDUM OPINION

      In an appeal from an order entered in a sexually-violent-predator proceeding,

we are asked to address whether we possess appellate jurisdiction over an order

changing the entity that approves where Richard Darren Goodwin is required to

reside. We conclude that the trial court’s order is not appealable, and we also

conclude that mandamus relief on the issues Goodwin raises is not warranted.

Accordingly, we dismiss the appeal for lack of jurisdiction.

      Recently, in In re Commitment of Cortez, we addressed the same issues as

set forth in Goodwin’s brief and concluded that we did not have appellate

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jurisdiction over his issues. No. 09-12-00385-CV, 2013 WL 3270613, at *2 (Tex.

App.—Beaumont June 27, 2013, no pet. h.). We also considered whether Cortez

raised issues entitling him to mandamus relief. See id. at **2-6.

      For the same reasons stated in Cortez, we conclude that we lack appellate

jurisdiction to review the trial court’s order dated July 26, 2012, and that Goodwin

has not demonstrated that he should receive mandamus relief. Accordingly, we

dismiss Goodwin’s appeal.

      APPEAL DISMISSED.




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                                                     HOLLIS HORTON
                                                          Justice

Submitted on July 10, 2013
Opinion Delivered August 15, 2013
Before McKeithen, C.J., Kreger and Horton, JJ.




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