Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals, 2010

Pettaway v. State

Pettaway v. State
Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals · Decided December 17, 2010 · Windom, Welch, Main, Kellum
72 So. 3d 725; 2010 Ala. Crim. App. LEXIS 124; 2010 WL 5144810 (Southern Reporter, Third Series)

Pettaway v. State

Opinion of the Court

WINDOM, Judge.

AFFIRMED BY UNPUBLISHED MEMORANDUM.

WELCH and MAIN, JJ., concur. KELLUM, J., concurs specially, with opinion.

Concurring Opinion

KELLUM, Judge,

concurring specially.

I write specially to note that this action appears to be Jesse Pettaway’s ninth Rule 32, Ala. R.Crim. P., petition challenging his 1981 conviction for first-degree rape and his resulting sentence of life in prison. I believe that allowing Pettaway to file multiple petitions for postconviction relief in which his claims are either precluded or without merit wastes scarce judicial resources. Therefore, I would encourage the circuit court to consider adopting sanctions like those proposed in Peoples v. State, 531 So.2d 323 (Ala.Crim.App. 1988), and Procup v. Strickland, 792 F.2d 1069 (11th Cir. 1986), to prevent future frivolous litigation on the part of Pettaway and other similarly situated inmates. See Ex parte Thompson, 38 So.3d 119 (Ala.Crim.App. 2009).

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