State v. Fowler

I respectfully dissent from this Court’s decision to quash the writ.

Vaughn Steel Fowler was convicted in the Baldwin District Court for public intoxication, resisting arrest, menacing, and assault. He was sentenced to 60 days in jail for each conviction; those sentences were to be served concurrently. Fowler appealed to the Baldwin Circuit Court for a trial de novo. At a pretrial conference, the circuit judge, Robert Earl Wilters, told Fowler that if he was convicted in the circuit court the sentence for each conviction would be greater than the sentence that had been imposed in the district…