Title: Ex parte Anderson Lafayette Boyd. PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS (In re: Anderson Lafayette Boyd v. State of Alabama)

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Issuer: Alabama Supreme Court

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Rel: 03/21/2008
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SUPREME COURT OF ALABAMA
OCTOBER TERM, 2007-2008
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Ex parte Anderson Lafayette Boyd
PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI
TO THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS
(In re: Anderson Lafayette Boyd
v.
State of Alabama)
(Franklin Circuit Court, CC-94-1.61;
Court of Criminal Appeals, CR-06-0401)
PARKER, Justice.
Anderson Lafayette Boyd petitions for certiorari review
of the Court of Criminal Appeals' affirmance by unpublished
memorandum of the trial court's denial of his motion for
reconsideration under § 13A-5-9.1, Ala. Code 1975, of his
sentence imposed pursuant to § 13A-5-9, Ala. Code 1975, the
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Habitual Felony Offender Act ("the HFOA"). We reverse and
remand.
On June 14, 1994, Boyd was convicted in the Franklin
Circuit Court of robbery in the first-degree. Prior to his
conviction for first-degree robbery, Boyd had been convicted
of six felony charges.  Generally, the previous convictions
were for forgery and theft; none of the convictions involved
crimes of a violent nature. However, the conviction for first-
degree robbery did involve the use of a deadly weapon. The
circuit 
court 
sentenced 
Boyd 
under 
th 
HFOA 
to 
life
imprisonment without the possibility of parole. See § 13A-5-
9(c)(3), Ala. Code 1975. On October 3, 2005, Boyd filed a
motion for reconsideration of his sentence pursuant to § 13A-
5-9.1, Ala. Code 1975, and Kirby v. State, 899 So. 2d 968
(Ala. 2004) ("Kirby motion"). This was Boyd's second Kirby
motion. After the Alabama Department of Corrections completed
the evaluation required by § 13A-5-9.1 and responded, Judge
Sharon H. Hester, the presiding judge of the Franklin Circuit
Court, denied Boyd's Kirby motion. 
Boyd filed a written notice of appeal, and the Court of
Criminal Appeals affirmed the circuit court's decision with an
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unpublished memorandum on the ground that Boyd's Kirby motion
was the second Kirby motion Boyd had filed and the circuit
court was therefore without jurisdiction to hear the motion.
Boyd v. State (No. CR-06-0401, Feb. 23, 2007), __ So. 2d __
(Ala. Crim. App 2007) (table). Boyd contends that the decision
of the Court of Criminal Appeals conflicts with Kirby, supra,
and Ex parte Seymour, 946 So. 2d 536 (Ala. 2006). We granted
Boyd's petition to determine whether Boyd's second Kirby
motion could be precluded as a successive motion for sentence
reconsideration  on the ground that the circuit court has no
jurisdiction to consider a successive Kirby motion. 
After we granted Boyd's petition, we issued an opinion in
Ex parte Gunn, [Ms. 1051754, Sept. 21, 2007] __ So. 2d __
(Ala. 2007), which is dispositive of this case. In an
unpublished memorandum in Gunn v. State (No. CR-05-1350,
August 11, 2006), __ So. 2d __ (Ala. Crim. App. 2006) (table),
the Court of Criminal Appeals held, as it did in this case,
that under Wells v. State, 941 So. 2d 1008 (Ala. Crim. App.
2005), the trial court did not have jurisdiction to consider
a successive Kirby motion. This Court granted the petition for
the writ of  certiorari in Gunn and overruled Wells, noting
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that Wells conflicted with Kirby and Ex parte Seymour, supra.
Ex parte Gunn, __ So. 2d at __.
The Court of Criminal Appeals here relied solely on Wells
in affirming the circuit court's judgment. In light of our
decision in Gunn, we reverse the judgment of the Court of
Criminal Appeals and remand this case to that court for
proceedings consistent with Gunn.     
REVERSED AND REMANDED.
See, Lyons, Woodall, Smith, Bolin, and Murdock, JJ., 
concur. 
Stuart, J., concurs specially. 
Cobb, C.J., recuses herself.    
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STUART, Justice (concurring specially).
See my writing in Ex parte Gunn, [Ms. 1051754, Sept. 21,
2007] ___ So. 2d ___, ___ (Ala. 2007)(Stuart, J., concurring
specially).