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

State: alabama

Issuer: Alabama Supreme Court

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REL: 10/26/07
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SUPREME COURT OF ALABAMA
OCTOBER TERM, 2007-2008
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Ex parte Anthony Edwards
PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI
TO THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS
(In re: Anthony Edwards
v.
State of Alabama)
(Jefferson Circuit Court, CC-93-2600 and CC-93-3039;
Court of Criminal Appeals, CR-06-1030)
SEE, Justice.
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We hereby suspend the provisions of Rule 39(g) and (h),
Ala. R. App. P., allowing the petitioner and the respondent to
file a brief and to request oral argument, and we summarily
grant the writ.  In Ex parte Gunn, [Ms. 1051754, September 21,
2007] ___ So. 2d ___ (Ala. 2007), this Court overruled Wells
v. State, 941 So. 2d 1008 (Ala. Crim. App. 2005), to the
extent that Wells created a limitation on a trial court's
jurisdiction to consider successive motions filed pursuant to
§ 13A-5-9.1, Ala. Code 1975.  The Court of Criminal Appeals in
this case relied solely on Wells for its affirmance of the
trial court's judgment.  Therefore, we reverse the judgment of
the Court of Criminal Appeals and remand the case for
proceedings consistent with Gunn.
WRIT GRANTED; REVERSED AND REMANDED.  
Lyons, Woodall, Smith, Bolin, Parker, 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).