State v. Brown

This case is here after our remand of Brown v. State,565 So.2d 585 (Ala. 1990), to the trial court for the setting of attorneys fees. The Honorable Charles Price, Circuit Judge for Montgomery County, held a hearing and awarded the sum of $1,197,186.88 to the attorneys for the plaintiff class. The State of Alabama appeals. We affirm.

The class action that became Brown I1 and Brown II2 on earlier appeals, and now becomes Brown III, was an outgrowth of this Court's decision in Ex parte Dison, 469 So.2d 662 (Ala. 1984), which reversed a defendant's conviction for driving under the influence in…