Ex Parte Hutto

The petitioner, James C. Hutto, filed this petition for a writ of mandamus directing the Honorable James C. Brotherton, circuit judge for the Fourteenth Judicial Circuit, to set his bail at the minimum amount recommended in Rule 7.2, Ala.R.Crim.P. On April 20, 1998, the petitioner was arrested for criminal trespass in the third degree. As a result of a statement Hutto made to the police during his questioning on that charge, he was charged with sexual abuse in the first degree and with kidnapping in the first degree. Arrest warrants relating to these two offenses were served on Hutto on April…