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Ex Parte State of Alabama

Supreme Court of Alabama
Mar 20, 1992
595 So. 2d 914 (Ala. 1992)

Opinion

1910529.

March 20, 1992.

Appeal from the Houston County Circuit Court, No. CC-90-120, Michael Crespi, J.

James H. Evans, Atty. Gen., and Stephen N. Dodd, Asst. Atty. Gen., for petitioner.

Gene Spencer, Dothan, for respondent.


The petition for the writ of certiorari is denied.

We agree with the Court of Criminal Appeals that generally evidence of prior (or subsequent) bad acts of a criminal defendant is presumptively prejudicial. There are certain limited exceptions to this general rule, but none of them applies in this case.

WRIT DENIED.

HORNSBY, C.J., and HOUSTON and KENNEDY, JJ., concur.

MADDOX, J., concurs specially.



I concur in denying the writ only because the Court of Criminal Appeals found, as a fact, that "[t]he appellant was positively identified by Bill Warnick, the cashier, both at trial and in a police lineup." Bolden v. State, 595 So.2d 911 (Ala.Crim.App. 1991).


Summaries of

Ex Parte State of Alabama

Supreme Court of Alabama
Mar 20, 1992
595 So. 2d 914 (Ala. 1992)
Case details for

Ex Parte State of Alabama

Case Details

Full title:Ex parte State of Alabama. (Re Parvin BOLDEN v. STATE)

Court:Supreme Court of Alabama

Date published: Mar 20, 1992

Citations

595 So. 2d 914 (Ala. 1992)

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