Gates v. State

I respectfully dissent from this Court’s order remanding this case to the circuit court for that court to “enter a written order specifically stating its reasons for revoking Gates’s probation and the evidence upon which it relied.” The record on appeal in this matter clearly demonstrates the circuit court’s reasons for revoking Gates’s probation. See, e.g., Ex parte State, 921 So.2d 450, 462 (Ala.2005) (holding that “ ‘oral findings, if recorded or transcribed, can satisfy the requirements of Morrissey [v. Brewer, 408 U.S. 471, 92 S.Ct. 2593, 33 L.Ed.2d 484 (1972),] when those findings…