Ex Parte Siebert

I concur with the decision of the Court to deny this petition for the writ of certiorari with a "cracker." I write specially in order to remind the bench and bar of the limitations of the effect of a denial of a petition for a writ of certiorari and in order to address some of the statements of law in the opinion of the Court of Criminal Appeals.

The denial of a petition for a writ of certiorari is not an endorsement of the decision or opinion of the lower appellate court. Exparte Terry, 540 So.2d 785 (Ala. 1989); Banks v. State, 358 So.2d 480 (Ala. 1978); and Hurst v. State, 293 Ala. 548, 307…