Legal Opinion · Concurrence

Heflin v. State

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided March 21, 2003No. 1011506Published

1ConcurrenceJohnstone, Justice

My reason for concurring in the decision of this Court to quash the writ of certiorari we have previously issued in this case is that, in my opinion, the defendant James Duke Heflin did not preserve before the trial court the dispositive ground that oth-. erwise would require a reversal of the defendant’s conviction. Other reasons for quashing are that the petition does not comply with Rule 39(d)(3), Ala. R.App. P., and the substance of the accompanying brief does not comply sufficiently with Rule 39(f)(1) and Rule 28(a)(10), Ala. RApp. P. My review of the record while this Court has had it,…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Ex Parte MayoSupreme Court of Alabama · 1994
  2. Gwarjanski v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1996
  3. Steiner v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1997
  4. Heflin v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 2002

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