Coats v. State

Ray Anthony Coats appealed from the denial of his latest motion seeking reconsideration of his sentence pursuant to § 13A-5-9.1, Ala.Code 1975. See Kirby v. State, 899 So.2d 968 (Ala.2004). Coats was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole following his March 23, 1987, first-degree robbery conviction. (Mobile Circuit Court case no. CC-87-79.) In the motion Coats sought to be resen-tenced.

The circuit court denied Coats’s Kirby motion because the court did not believe it had jurisdiction to consider a successive motion for sentence reconsideration. The majority correctly…