Ex Parte Parks

On September 14, 2004, this Court granted defendant Carlos Shanta Parks's petition for a writ of certiorari to examine whether the Court of Criminal Appeals, in its unpublished memorandum affirming Parks's conviction of felony murder and resulting sentence of 25 years' imprisonment, Parks v. State,923 So.2d 328 (Ala.Crim.App. 2004), properly held that Parks had not preserved his argument concerning the application of the felony-murder rule to his case. Judge Cobb dissented from that unpublished memorandum and issued an opinion. The unpublished memorandum in Parks summarizes the evidence as…