State v. Williams

LONG, Presiding Judge.

The State of Alabama filed this petition for a writ of mandamus directing the Honorable James H. Hard IV, circuit judge for the Tenth Judicial Circuit, to reinstate the respondents’ original sentences of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.

On April 28, 2000, Andre Dewayne Williams was convicted of trafficking in marijuana and was sentenced as a habitual felon with three prior convictions to life imprisonment without parole. On April 28, 2000, Spencer Currie was convicted of trafficking in cocaine and was sentenced as a habitual felon with three prior…