Appeals without full transcripts
Vallecillo v. Gonzalez
In brief
- Where it stands
- Petition Pending
Awaiting an order on the petition
- What it’s about
- Peter Vallecillo filed a petition asking the Supreme Court to review a Texas appeals court’s dismissal of his civil appeal under a rule for cases with only part of the trial transcript.
- What's at stake
- Vallecillo’s civil appeal remains dismissed in Texas while the Supreme Court has yet to decide whether to review his challenge.
Summary: written with AI from the case record.
What it's about
He argues that he could not afford the full transcript but supplied substantial portions and identified issues for review.
Vallecillo says he could not afford the full trial transcript but provided substantial portions and identified issues for review.
Texas has a rule for appeals in which the person challenging a trial judgment provides only part of the trial transcript.
Question presented
1. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment permits a State that provides appellate review to make review of a civil evidentiary appeal effectively unavailable by applying a partial-reporter’s-record rule so strictly that, after an appellant who could not afford the entire transcript obtained substantial portions of the record, the parties briefed the appeal, and no concrete prejudice from the missing statement of issues was identified, the appellate court was required to presume that evidence it did not review supported the judgment. 2. Whether a court of appeals may dismiss an appeal under Texas Rule of Appellate Procedure 34.6(c) without reaching the merits when the Appellant has identified the issues for review, supplied the testimony forming the evidentiary basis for the judgment, and made a bona fide effort to obtain Appellate review. 3. Whether the Fourteenth Court of Appeals violated Petitioner’s due process rights as guaranteed by the Constitution Fourteen Amendment due process Clause.
What happens next
The next step is for the Supreme Court to decide whether to hear the case. No oral argument is scheduled.
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Sources
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