Legal Opinion

Ex Parte Harbor

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided February 8, 1985No. 83-1147PublishedCited by 21 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

465 So.2d 460 (1985)

Ex Parte Charles Michael HARBOR.

(Re: Charles Michael Harbor

v.

State).

83-1147.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

February 8, 1985.

George W. Andrews III, Birmingham, for petitioner.

Charles A. Graddick, Atty. Gen., and Glenn L. Davidson, Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondent.

2Per curiam

The writ is quashed as improvidently granted. We cannot agree with the petitioner's argument that the Supreme Court of the United States in Solem v. Helm, 463 U.S. 277, 103 S.Ct. 3001, 77 L.Ed.2d 637 (1983), required appellate courts to test all sentences against the proscriptions of the cruel and unusual punishment…

3Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Solem v. HelmSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
  2. Brown v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1980
  3. Moore v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1975
  4. Wallace v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1981

4Cited by21 opinions

  1. Kinder v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1986
  2. Atwell v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1991
  3. Ex Parte MaddoxSupreme Court of Alabama · 1986
  4. Harris v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1988
  5. Hammond v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1986

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