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   State Courts - Alabama - April 25, 2003
  
Pruitt v. State, CR-01-2127, COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS OF ALABAMA, April 25, 2003, Released
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Overview: Although the prosecutor's exclusion of jurors with military affiliation was race-neutral, defendant was precluded from offering proof to support his allegation of disparate treatment.

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Richardson v. State, CR-02-0225, COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS OF ALABAMA, April 25, 2003, Released
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Overview: Revocation of a probationer's term of probation was reversed, where the only evidence supporting it was hearsay and based on an officer's testimony about a police report she had no knowledge of and a search she did not participate in.

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S.E. v. State Dep't of Human Res., 2020049/2020074, COURT OF CIVIL APPEALS OF ALABAMA, April 25, 2003, Released
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Overview: Trial court properly terminated mother's and father's parental rights, as evidence established the parents' inability to adjust their circumstances to meet their special-needs children's medical requirements.

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Schartau v. State, CR-01-2001, COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS OF ALABAMA, April 25, 2003, Released
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Overview: Since petitioner sufficiently pled his counsel misinformed him about minimum sentence and his claim was meritorious on its face, a remand was required to determine if the guilty plea was in fact involuntarily made and he was entitled to relief.

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Sol v. Miller, 2001066, COURT OF CIVIL APPEALS OF ALABAMA, April 25, 2003, Released
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State v. Trussell, CR-02-0273, COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS OF ALABAMA, April 25, 2003, Released
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Overview: Where an Alabama prisoner's sentence was not illegal, but grounds for modification of sentence existed, the prisoner's failure to challenge the sentence in a timely post-trial motion precluded him from seeking post-conviction reconsideration.

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Thomas v. State, CR-01-1883, COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS OF ALABAMA, April 25, 2003, Released
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Overview: There was no violation of due process in temporarily removing an inmate from participation in a work-release program pending a due-process hearing, and his argument that he should not have been classified as a heinous offender was meritless.

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Toliver v. State, CR-02-0665, COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS OF ALABAMA, April 25, 2003, Released
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Overview: Trial court lacked jurisdiction to accept an inmate's plea to second-degree robbery and, thus, erred in denying his petition for post-conviction relief, where the indictment was never amended to include that he was aided in the robbery by another.

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Turner v. State, CR-99-1568, COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS OF ALABAMA, April 25, 2003, Released
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Overview: Although the trial court complied with most of the directions on remand, another remand was necessary to make specific findings as to the applicability of statutory aggravating and mitigating factors and nonstatutory mitigating circumstances.

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Wood v. State, CR-01-0700, COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS OF ALABAMA, April 25, 2003, Released
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Overview: In light of Atkins decision, a death row inmate who claimed to be mentally retarded was entitled to an evidentiary hearing on his post-conviction petition to determine if he was retarded and if his counsel were ineffective for not raising this issue.

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