V.S. v. State

HOUSTON, Justice.

We quash this petition for a writ of certiorari on a jurisdictional basis. In Marshall v. State, 884 So.2d 900, 905 (Ala.2003), this Court stated:

“We hereby decline effectively to amend Rule 32[, Ala. R.Crim. P.]; we reaffirm our holdings in Ex parte Weeks[, 611 So.2d 259 (Ala.1992),] and Ex parte Johnson[, 806 So.2d 1195 (Ala.2001) ]; and we reiterate that the writ of mandamus is ‘the only remedy available’ to those, who like Marshall, through no fault of their own, fail to receive notice of the dismissal of their Rule 32 petition in time to effect a timely appeal therefrom.…