Legal Opinion
Lightfoot v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided July 12, 2013No. 1120200PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MAIN, Justice.
Reginald Tyrone Lightfoot petitioned this Court for a writ of certiorari to review the judgment of the Court of Criminal Appeals affirming his conviction for trafficking in cocaine and his sentence of 15 years’ imprisonment. See Lightfoot v. State, 152 So.3d 434 (Ala.Crim.App.2012) (opinion on application for rehearing). This Court granted certiorari review to determine, as a matter of first impression, whether an Apprendi1 error in applying a sentence enhancement is automatically harmless when the erroneous application of the sentence enhancement does not increase the…
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