Rogers v. City of Montgomery (In re Rogers)

MENDHEIM, Justice.

*1047Reginald Deshone Rogers petitioned this Court for a writ of certiorari on an issue of first impression: Whether the oral-pronouncement rule discussed in Ex parte Kelley, 246 So.3d 1068 (Ala. 2015), applies where a Uniform Traffic Ticket and Complaint ("UTTC") has been filed and thereafter purportedly disposed of by a municipal court magistrate based on a guilty plea pursuant to Rule 19(C)(1), Ala. R. Jud. Admin.1 For the reasons hereinafter discussed, we quash the writ.

I. Facts and Procedural History

On March 17, 2016, a police officer for the City of Montgomery issued Rogers…