Legal Opinion
Ex parte Watters
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided October 21, 2016No. 1150182PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SHAW, Justice.
Jennifer Watters petitions this Court for a writ of mandamus directing the Jefferson Circuit Court to' stay proceedings in Watters’s criminal trial and to conduct a pretrial evidentiary hearing to consider whether she is immune from criminal prosecution on the ground of self-defense under the then existing version of § 13A-3-23(d), Ala. Code 1975 (“A person who uses force, including deadly physical force, as justified and permitted in this section is immune from criminal prosecution and civil action for the use of such force, unless the force was determined to be unlawful.”).1…
2Cases cited20 opinions
- Mitchell v. ForsythSupreme Court of the United States · 1985
- Hunter v. BryantSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
- Siegert v. GilleySupreme Court of the United States · 1991
- IMED Corp. v. Systems Engineering Assoc.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1992
- Ex Parte the Boc Group, Inc.Supreme Court of Alabama · 2001
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3Cited by4 opinions
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- Ex parte Dalton Teal. PETITION FOR WRIT OF MANDAMUS (In re: Paul Thomas v. Black Mark 2, LLC, d/b/a Black Market Bar & Grill Dalton Lee Teal George Cowgill and Elise Yarbrough)) (Jefferson Circuit Court: CV-13-902154)Supreme Court of Alabama · 2023
- Martin v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 2017