Title: Ex parte Derrick Sturdivant.
Citation: N/A
Docket Number: 1150416
State: Alabama
Issuer: Alabama Supreme Court
Date: May 27, 2016

REL:05/27/2016
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SUPREME COURT OF ALABAMA
OCTOBER TERM, 2015-2016
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Ex parte Derrick Sturdivant
PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI
TO THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS
(In re:  Derrick Sturdivant
v.
State of Alabama)
(Jefferson Circuit Court, CC-02-5943.60;
Court of Criminal Appeals, CR-14-1549)
SHAW, Justice.
On December 11, 2015, the Court of Criminal Appeals, in
an unpublished memorandum, affirmed the Jefferson Circuit
Court's order denying Derrick Sturdivant's Rule 32, Ala. R.
Crim. P., petition.  Sturdivant v. State (No. CR-14-1549,
1150416
December 11, 2015), ___ So. 3d ___ (Ala. Crim. App. 2015)
(table).  In his brief on appeal in the Court of Criminal
Appeals, Sturdivant, for the first time, raised an issue
challenging the sentencing court's jurisdiction to enter his
original sentence.   Following the Court of Criminal Appeals'
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affirmance, Sturdivant filed this petition for a writ of
certiorari.  
Although jurisdictional issues can generally be raised at
any time, see Nunn v. Baker, 518 So. 2d 711 (Ala. 1987), the
Court of Criminal Appeals "will not remand a case to the
circuit 
court 
to 
hold 
an 
evidentiary 
hearing 
on 
a
jurisdictional 
claim 
that 
was 
not 
presented 
in 
the
petitioner's Rule 32 petition unless facts appear in the
record affirmatively showing a lack of jurisdiction."  
Fincher
v. State, 837 So. 2d 876, 881 (Ala. Crim. App. 2002).  Nothing
before this Court indicates that the record before the Court
of Criminal Appeals affirmatively demonstrated that the
sentencing 
court 
lacked 
jurisdiction, 
and 
we 
deny 
Sturdivant's
petition for the writ of certiorari.  
The merits of that claim have not been adjudicated in
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this case.
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Nevertheless, 
if 
Sturdivant's 
claim 
"is 
jurisdictional in
nature, [then Sturdivant] may file another Rule 32 petition
raising this claim; the claim will not be subject to the
procedural bars in Rule 32.2, Ala. R. Crim. P.; if pleaded
properly, [Sturdivant] would be entitled to have an
opportunity to present evidence to prove the claim."  Fincher,
837 So. 2d at 882.
WRIT DENIED.
Stuart, Parker, Main, and Wise, JJ., concur.
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