Hall v. State

I concur in this Court’s judgment affirming the circuit court’s summary dismissal of Kevin Brent. Hall’s Rule 32, Ala. R.Crim. P., petition for postconviction relief. I write specially to explain my basis for doing so as well as to address certain aspects of the dissenting opinion. .

Stated simply, the Court’s decision today overrules our recent decisions in Siercks v. State, 154 So.3d 1085 (Ala.Crim.App.2013), and Hawk v. State, 171 So.3d 96 (Ala.Crim.App.2014), only to the extent that those decisions hold that a circuit court’s failure to impose a fine pursuant to the Demand Reduction…