Court Opinion

ID: 7761629
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-30 20:37:44.628282+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:40:36.636875
License: Public Domain

I concur in affirming the appellant's convictions; however, I would reverse his sentences and remand the case for resentencing in accordance with Judge Shaw's special writing in Poole v. State, 846 So.2d 370, 389
(Ala.Crim.App. 2001), with which I concurred as to this issue. As to those points on which I disagree with Judge Shaw, see my special writing in Poole, 846 So.2d at 398.
I believe that these sentence enhancements must be charged in the indictment and proved to the jury beyond a reasonable doubt, and that the failure to charge these sentence enhancements in the indictment is a jurisdictional defect which this Court should notice and remedy on appeal. Therefore, as to the application of the sentencing enhancements, I dissent.
Shaw, J., concurs.