Case Title: Ex parte Shawn Ray Harper. PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS (In re: Shawn Ray Harper v. State of Alabama)

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Docket Number: 1130479

State: alabama

Court: Alabama Supreme Court

Date: 2014-04-18T00:00:00Z

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REL:  04/18/2014
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SUPREME COURT OF ALABAMA
OCTOBER TERM, 2013-2014
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1130479
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Ex parte Shawn Ray Harper
PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI
TO THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS
(In re: Shawn Ray Harper
v.
State of Alabama)
(Cullman Circuit Court, CC-10-74.61;
Court of Criminal Appeals, CR-12-1794)
WISE, Justice.
The petition for the writ of certiorari is denied.
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In denying the petition for the writ of certiorari, this
Court does not wish to be understood as approving all the
language, reasons, or statements of law in the Court of
Criminal 
Appeals' 
unpublished 
memorandum. 
 
Horsley 
v. 
Horsley,
291 Ala. 782, 280 So. 2d 155 (1973).
WRIT DENIED.
Stuart, Bolin, Parker, Murdock, Shaw, Main, and Bryan,
JJ., concur.
Moore, C.J., dissents.
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MOORE, Chief Justice (dissenting).
Shawn Ray Harper pleaded guilty to first-degree unlawful
manufacture of a controlled substance, a violation of § 13A-
12-218, Ala. Code 1975. On April 28, 2013, he filed the
underlying Rule 32, Ala. R. Crim. P., petition, alleging,
among other things, that the trial court lacked jurisdiction
to render a judgment or to impose a sentence because Harper's
preliminary hearing was waived by a court-appointed attorney
whom Harper had fired and replaced with another attorney
before the hearing. I would grant the petition for the writ of
certiorari to determine whether the attorney who allegedly no
longer 
represented 
Harper 
improperly 
waived 
Harper's
preliminary hearing. Therefore, I respectfully dissent. 
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