Ex Parte Fowler

Samantha Ann Barratt Fowler petitions this Court for a writ of mandamus1 directing the Honorable Robert E. Lewis, Judge of the District Court of Etowah County, to vacate his order denying her motion for denial of adoption and denial of award of custody and to enter an order granting said motion. Fowler submits that Judge Lewis abused his discretion in denying her motion for denial of adoption and award of custody, because, she argues, her consent to the adoption of her two children, Lillian Rachel Barratt and Rebecca Lea Barratt, by Robert Charles Merkle, Jr., and his wife, Barbara Ann…