Ex Parte Fletcher

849 So.2d 900 (2001)

Ex parte Earnestine FLETCHER.

(In re Earnestine Fletcher v. State).

1990055.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

March 30, 2001.

R. Scott Anderson, Decatur, for petitioner.

William H. Pryor, Jr., atty. gen., and Sandra J. Stewart, asst. atty. gen., for respondent.

LYONS, Justice.

Earnestine Fletcher was charged with the theft of over $200,000 from the City of Decatur ("the City"), for which she had been formerly employed as a clerk. She pleaded guilty to theft of property in the first degree, a violation of § 13A-8-3(a), Ala.Code 1975.[1] The trial court sentenced Fletcher to 15 years in…