Ex Parte Porter

Supreme Court of Alabama
Ex Parte Porter, 850 So. 2d 315 (Ala. 2002)
2002 WL 31439739
Johnstone, Lyons

Ex Parte Porter

Dissenting Opinion

I respectfully dissent for the reasons expressed in the dissenting portion of my special writing in Hale v. State, 848 So.2d 224 (Ala. 2002).

Opinion of the Court

The writ of certiorari is quashed. See Hale v. State, 848 So.2d 224,233 (Ala. 2002) (holding that "the absence of sentence enhancement allegations from the indictment does not deprive the trial court of jurisdiction to impose the enhancements" and that because the defendant "did not argue before the trial court at any time that the application of the sentence enhancements violated his rights to due process and to a trial by jury, he . . . waived appellate review of [those] arguments").

WRIT QUASHED.

Moore, C.J., and Houston, See, Brown, Harwood, Woodall, and Stuart, JJ., concur.

Johnstone, J., dissents.

Reference

Full Case Name
Ex Parte Oscar Porter, Jr. (In Re: Oscar Porter, Jr. v. State of Alabama).
Cited By
3 cases
Status
Published