Ex parte Watters

Jennifer Watters petitions this Court for a writ of mandamus directing the Jefferson Circuit Court to conduct an evidentia-ry hearing on Watters’s claim of immunity based on the theory of self-defense under § 13A-3-23, Ala.Code 1975. This Court, in an order, denies Watters’s petition on the basis that Watters has not, the Court says, “[met] her heavy burden of establishing a clear legal right to the issuance of a writ of mandamus.” I disagree with this conclusion and respectfully dissent from the Court’s decision to deny Watters’s petition.

Watters was indicted on November 7, 2014, for…