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The unitary Court of Appeals had been operative since 1911. The Court of Criminal Appeals is the linear descendant of the unitary Court of Appeals as its predecessor judges were automatically assigned to the Court of Criminal Appeals in 1969. At that time the court only had three judges, but that was changed to five in 1971. [1] The court is ...
Alabama v. White, 496 US 325 (1990), is a U.S. Supreme Court case involving the Fourth Amendment.The majority opinion ruled that anonymous tips can provide reasonable suspicion for a traffic stop provided that police can factually verify the circumstances asserted by the tip.
On February 17, 2019, Halima Tariffa Culley's son was arrested while driving his mother's car. [2] Police charged Culley with possession of marijuana and seized the car. . Culley's mother was unable to recover the vehicle, and the State of Alabama filed a civil asset forfeiture case against the vehicle. 20 months later, Culley won summary judgment under Alabama's innocent-owner d
The Court asserted that "this Court is bound by holdings, not language." [12] Therefore, from the majority's point of view, the holding of Cannon did not include the footnote. The Court also rejected the argument that Guardians Association v. Civil Service Commission, a case the Court decided in 1983, dictated the outcome of Sandoval.
Alabama state case law (4 P) J. Alabama state court judges (2 C, 62 P) ... Alabama Court of Civil Appeals; Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals; Alabama Court of the ...
Jim Standridge appealed the case. On February 17, 2012, the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals upheld Moore's conviction in a 5–0 decision. [6] The case will automatically be appealed to the Alabama Supreme Court, and can then be appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States.
The decision of the court was based on two consolidated cases, Jackson v.Hobbs, No. 10-9647, and Miller v.Alabama, No. 10-9646. [5] The Los Angeles Times wrote: "In one case that came before the court, Kuntrell Jackson was 14 in November 18, 1999 when he and two other teenagers went to a video store in Arkansas planning to rob it. [6]
In a 6–3 decision, the Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the Alabama Supreme Court, holding that neither the racial disparity in jury pools nor the decade-long absence of any black juror to serve at trial presented evidence sufficient to "make out a prima facie case of invidious discrimination under the Fourteenth Amendment."