Case ID: so3d_90/html/0227-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "WINDOM, Judge. KELLUM, Judge,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

James WHITE v. STATE of Alabama.
    CR-10-1364.
    Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama.
    Sept. 30, 2011.
    Rehearing Denied Dec. 9, 2011.
    Certiorari Denied Feb. 10, 2012 Alabama Supreme Court 1110378.
    James White, pro se.
    Luther Strange, atty. gen., and Robin Denise Scales, asst. atty. gen., for appellee.
   WINDOM, Judge.

AFFIRMED BY UNPUBLISHED MEMORANDUM.

WELCH, P.J., concurs. KELLUM, J., concurs specially, with opinion.

KELLUM, Judge,

concurring specially.

I write specially to note that this action appears to be James White’s sixth Rule 32, Ala. R.Crim. P., petition challenging his 1986 conviction for first-degree sodomy and his resulting sentence of life imprisonment. I believe that allowing White 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 White and other similarly situated inmates. See Ex parte Thompson, 38 So.3d 119 (Ala.Crim.App.2009).