Legal Opinion
Ex Parte Washington
Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama
Decided March 16, 1998No. CR-97-0615PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
The petitioners, Billy Washington, Darian Eubanks, and William Michael Commander, filed this petition for a writ of mandamus, directing the Honorable Robert W. Barr, circuit judge for the Twelfth Judicial Circuit, to dismiss the indictments against them. The petitioners were indicted by Coffee County grand juries for unrelated offenses.1 All three are represented by the same attorney, who filed this petition. Coffee County is divided into two judicial divisions: the Elba Division and the Enterprise Division.2 Each petitioner filed a motion to dismiss the indictment against him based on the…
2Cases cited13 opinions
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- Halliday v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
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- McCullar v. UNIV. UNDERWRITERS LIFE INS.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1996
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3Cited by2 opinions
- State v. McKinneyCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1998
- Melvin Ray v. Donal CampbellCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2008