Case ID: so2d_819/html/0662-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Michael Anthony MERCHANT v. STATE of Alabama.
    CR-00-2034.
    Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama.
    Oct. 26, 2001.
    Rehearing Denied Nov. 21, 2001.
    Michael Anthony Merchant, pro se.
    Bill Pryor, atty. gen.; and Beth Slate Poe and Sandra J. Stewart, asst, attys. gen., for appellee.
   PER CURIAM.

AFFIRMED BY UNPUBLISHED MEMORANDUM.

McMILLAN, P.J., and BASCHAB and WISE, JJ., concur; SHAW, J., concurs in the result; COBB, J., dissents, with opinion.

COBB, Judge,

dissenting.

I agree with the result the majority reaches in its unpublished memorandum as to all claims except those arising from the United States Supreme Court’s opinion in Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466, 120 S.Ct. 2348, 147 L.Ed.2d 435 (2000). In accordance with my special writing in Poole v. State, [Ms. CR-99-1200, August 31, 2001] — So.2d -, - (Ala.Crim.App.2001), I believe that Merchant has presented a valid jurisdictional challenge to the trial court’s authority to impose sentence and may be entitled to relief on this claim. Therefore, I must respectfully dissent from the majority’s affirmance of the denial of Merchant’s Rule 32, Ala. R.Crim. P., petition because I believe that the circuit court should have granted this petition in order to address the Apprendi claims.