Court Opinion

ID: 9663965
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 23:56:27.268995+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:14:59.706131
License: Public Domain

STUART, Justice
(concurring specially).
I recognize the principle of stare decisis, and, in light of this Court’s holding in Ex parte Clemons, [Ms. 1041915, May 4, 2007] — So.3d-(Ala.2007), I concur in the majority’s decision. I, however, adhere to my writing in Clemons, in which I maintained “if the sua sponte application of the waived procedural bar does not ‘probably injuriously affect[ ] substantial rights’ of the petitioner or the State, it is appropriate for the appellate court to apply the procedural bar.” — So.3d at - (Stuart, J., concurring in the result).