State v. Pace

I respectfully dissent, because I believe the trial judge acted within his discretion in denying the attorney’s application. “[Because] mandamus is an extraordinary remedy, the standard of review for a writ of mandamus is whether there has been a clear abuse of discretion by the trial judge.... ” Ex parte Rudolph, 515 So.2d 704, 706 (Ala.1987); Ex parte Allstate Life Ins. Co., 741 So.2d 1066, 1069 (Ala.1999). Evidence that Ms. Gutierrez had lied about a shoplifting conviction, on both an application to law school and an application for a clerkship, gave the trial judge ample reason to deny…