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Ex Parte Spears

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided April 30, 1993No. 1920129Published

1Opinion of the Court

621 So.2d 1255 (1993)

Ex parte Thomas Wayne SPEARS.

(In re State of Alabama v. Thomas Wayne Spears).

1920129.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

April 30, 1993.

Rehearing Denied June 4, 1993.

James E. Kimbrough, Jr., Mobile, and Stuart C. DuBose, Jackson, for petitioner.

James H. Evans, Atty. Gen., and Robert C. Ward, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondent.

HOUSTON, Justice.

Thomas Wayne Spears petitions for a writ of mandamus directing District Judge D.P. Scurlock III, sitting by designation as a circuit judge in the First Judicial Circuit, to grant Spears's motion for a new trial, under Rule 15.4,…

Also in this document: Dissent.

2Cases cited36 opinions

  1. Green v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1957
  2. Abney v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
  3. United States v. JornSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
  4. Oregon v. KennedySupreme Court of the United States · 1982
  5. Grady v. CorbinSupreme Court of the United States · 1990

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