Case ID: so3d_101/html/0806-01.html
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Author: {"author": "WINDOM, Presiding Judge. KELLUM, Judge,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Keith RICHARDS v. STATE of Alabama.
    CR-11-0471.
    Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama.
    April 27, 2012.
    Rehearing Denied June 22, 2012.
    Certiorari Denied Aug. 10, 2012 Alabama Supreme Court 1111300.
    Keith Richards, pro se.
    Luther Strange, atty. gen., and Andy Scoot Poole, asst. atty. gen., for appellee.
   WINDOM, Presiding Judge.

AFFIRMED BY UNPUBLISHED MEMORANDUM.

JOINER, J., concurs. KELLUM, J., concurs specially, with opinion.

KELLUM, Judge,

concurring specially.

I write specially to note that this action appears to be Keith Richards’s fifth Rule 32, Ala. R.Crim. P., petition challenging his 2002 conviction for trafficking marijuana and his resulting sentence as a habitual felony offender to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. I believe that allowing Richards to file multiple petitions for postconviction relief in which his claims are either precluded or without merit wastes scarce judicial resources. Therefore, I would encourage the circuit court to consider adopting sanctions like those proposed in Peoples v. State, 531 So.2d 323 (Ala.Crim.App.1988), and Procup v. Strickland, 792 F.2d 1069 (11th Cir.1986), to prevent future frivolous litigation on the part of Richards and other similarly situated inmates. See Ex parte Thompson, 38 So.3d 119 (Ala.Crim.App.2009).