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   State Courts - Alabama - August 31, 2007
  
Alexander v. State, CR-06-0017, COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS OF ALABAMA, August 31, 2007, Decided
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Overview: Judgment was reversed as rebuttal witness's testimony that he had smoked marijuana with defendant in 2004 was not admissible to impeach defendant's credibility under Ala. R. Evid. 608(b) since witness's testimony was not inconsistent with defendant's testimony that he had not smoked marijuana between 1982 and July 2002.

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Brooks v. State, CR-05-2384, COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS OF ALABAMA, August 31, 2007, Released
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Overview: Because defendant made a sufficient showing regarding the potential relevance and materiality of the victim's counseling records that he was requesting, the trial court abused its discretion when it refused to conduct an in camera inspection of those records.

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Brown v. State, CR-06-0391, COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS OF ALABAMA, August 31, 2007, Decided
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Overview: Capital murder conviction was affirmed; appellate court would not reweigh conflicting evidence presented at trial, defendant failed to properly preserve claims of jury instruction error, and under Ala. Code ??12-25-35, the trial court was not required to make specific findings when sentencing defendant outside the voluntary sentencing guidelines.

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Burch v. Moulton, 1050910, SUPREME COURT OF ALABAMA, August 31, 2007, Decided
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Overview: Because a student lacked the requirements necessary to graduate and had been arrested for possessing illegal prescription drugs, the college officials were entitled to state immunity under Ala. Const. art. I, ? 14, and did not abuse their discretion refusing to award the student a medical degree; the student's due-process rights were not violated.

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C.P. v. State, CR-06-0157, COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS OF ALABAMA, August 31, 2007, Decided
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Overview: Appellant juvenile was improperly convicted of harassment under Ala. Code ? 13A-11-8(a)(1)(b) because his statement to a fellow student to "blow" him did not cause the student to feel threatened as required by ? 13A-11-8(a)(2) and because the statement did not invoke any immediate type of response from the student.

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Clements v. Clements, 2060044, COURT OF CIVIL APPEALS OF ALABAMA, August 31, 2007, Released
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Overview: Using a former wife's valuations of marital assets and debts, she received 40 percent of the net marital estate, and her former husband's award was 60 percent. Therefore, the trial court's division of the marital estate was not plainly or palpably wrong or inequitable, as the husband alleged.

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Coleman v. State, CR-06-1242, COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS OF ALABAMA, August 31, 2007, Released
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Overview: Circuit judge should have responded to inmate's recusal motion as under Ala. Canons Jud. Ethics 3, judge's impartiality in considering motion for reconsideration of 1994 habitual offender sentence might be questioned if, as inmate contended, judge was the district attorney at time of proceedings underlying prior convictions used for enhancement.

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Ducker v. State, CR-06-0436, COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS OF ALABAMA, August 31, 2007, Decided
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Overview: Trial court violated defendant's Sixth Amendment right to counsel by forcing him to proceed on his motion to withdraw his guilty plea without benefit of counsel even though defendant requested a continuance to give him time to obtain counsel for the hearing. Motion to withdraw plea was critical stage requiring representation or a valid waiver.

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Easterwood v. State, CR-04-2205, COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS OF ALABAMA, August 31, 2007, Decided
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Eatmon v. State, CR-04-2241, COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS OF ALABAMA, August 31, 2007, Released
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Overview: In light of evidence that defendant beat one victim with iron bar, kidnapped him and his wife, doused them with gasoline, and burned them alive, under Ala. Code ? 13A-5-53(b)(3), his death sentence was not disproportionate or excessive when compared to the penalty imposed in similar cases.

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