Brooks v. State

892 So.2d 976 (2004)

Ex parte State of Alabama

(In re Rodgrick Cornilius BROOKS v. STATE of Alabama).

1020344.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

January 16, 2004.

William H. Pryor, Jr., atty. gen., and Robin Blevins Scales and G. Ward Beeson III, asst. attys. gen., for petitioner.

Submitted on petitioner's brief only.

HARWOOD, Justice.

The State of Alabama petitioned this Court for a writ of certiorari, which we granted, to address whether the Court of Criminal Appeals erred in reversing the judgment of the trial court denying Rodgrick Cornilius Brooks's second Rule 32, Ala.R.Crim.P., petition for…