Butler v. State

This Court is bound by decisions of the Alabama Supreme Court, see § 12-3-16, Ala. Code 1975, and "is without authority to overrule the decisions of [that] court." Jonesv. City of Huntsville, 288 Ala. 242, 244, 259 So.2d 288,290 (1972). Thus, we have no choice; we must reverse the circuit court's order granting the State's motion to reconsider its order entered on July 13, 2005, in which it granted Lacy Ray Butler's motion for sentence reconsideration based on its finding that Butler was a nonviolent convicted offender. In light of the Supreme Court's decision in Ex parte Butler, 972 So.2d…