Case ID: so2d_445/html/0936-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "BOWEN, Presiding Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Ex parte STATE of Alabama, ex rel. James H. EVANS, as District Attorney for the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit. (Re STATE of Alabama v. Betty LaFLORE.)
    3 Div. 694.
    Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama.
    Jan. 31, 1984.
   AFTER REMANDMENT BY THE SUPREME COURT

BOWEN, Presiding Judge.

The District Attorney's petition for writ of mandamus, or in the alternative, petition for a writ of prohibition, is denied on authority of Ex parte LaFlore, 445 So.2d 932 (Ala.1983), wherein the Alabama Supreme Court held that LaFlore “is constitutionally entitled to a jury trial on the issue of her mental competency to stand trial.”

PETITION DENIED.

All Judges concur.