Colby Ray Ballinger v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. “The code of criminal procedure does not contemplate that a bill of costs be prepared and filed at the time the trial court signs the judgment of conviction or before a criminal conviction is appealed. See Tex.Code Crim. Proc. Ann. arts. 103.001, .006. Instead, article 103.001 provides that costs are not payable by a defendant until a written bill of costs is produced or ready to be produced, and article 103.006 specifically provides that when a criminal action is appealed, an officer of the trial court “shall certify and sign a bill of costs” and “send the bill of costs to the court to which the action ... is ... appealed.” Id. arts. 103.001, .006; see also Tex. R.App. P. 34.5(c) (providing for supplementation of the clerk’s record with “omitted items”); Allen , — S.W.3d at -, 2013 WL 1316965, at (reasoning that substance of bill of costs is not newly created but “merely a documentation of what occurred during ... trial”); Cardenas , (reasoning that rule 34.5(c) does not exclude the possibility of supplementation with new documents, the creation of which is otherwise required by law).”

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   e.g. Robert Eugene Crisp v. State