in Re Keith Judd ( 2016 )

TEXAS COURT OF APPEALS, THIRD DISTRICT, AT AUSTIN
NO. 03-16-00025-CV
In re Keith Judd
ORIGINAL PROCEEDING FROM TRAVIS COUNTY
MEMORANDUM OPINION
Relator Keith Judd has filed another petition for writ of mandamus in which he seeks
to overcome his disenfranchisement under Texas law for having a felony conviction.1 The substance
of Judd’s current claim for relief is an attempted collateral attack on the felony conviction that
bars him from voting.2 We deny the petition.
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Bob Pemberton, Justice
Before Chief Justice Rose, Justices Pemberton and Bourland
Filed: January 19, 2016
1
See In re Judd, No. 03-16-00021-CV, 2016 Tex. App. LEXIS 279 (Tex. App.—Austin
Jan. 13, 2016, orig. proceeding) (mem. op.); see also In re Judd, No. 03-15-00595-CV, 2015 Tex.
App. LEXIS 10808, at *3–7 (Tex. App.—Austin Oct. 21, 2015, orig. proceeding) (mem. op.)
(addressing Judd’s right to appear on the ballot as a presidential candidate despite his felony
conviction) (citing LaRouche v. Hannah, 822 S.W.2d 632, 632–34 (Tex. 1992) (per curiam)).
2
See United States v. Judd, 252 F.3d 435 (5th Cir. 2001) (affirming conviction); see also
United States v. Judd, No. 08-50213, 2009 U.S. App. LEXIS 29764, at *1 (5th Cir. Oct. 7, 2009)
(noting that the Fifth Circuit had affirmed Judd’s conviction). Judd also seemed to acknowledge the
existence if not also validity of this felony conviction in each of his recent proceedings before this
Court, but our analysis here does not rely upon that observation.