Court Opinion

ID: 4816495
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2021-08-21 20:42:32.875786+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:10:51.202500
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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; Aa.Code 1975. On April 28, 2013, he filed the underlying Rule 32, Aa. 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.