Court Opinion

ID: 9931814
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2024-02-09 18:29:32.517712+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:28:34.563612
License: Public Domain

I join in Judge Shaw's special concurrence, and agree with his interpretation of Ex parte Minor, 780 So.2d 796 (Ala. 2000).
I write separately to point out that the trial judge followed the law as it existed at the time this case was tried in February 2000. Months later, the Alabama Supreme Court issued its opinion in Ex parte Minor, which requires a trial court, sua sponte, to instruct the jury as to the limited use of a prior conviction, using a two-pronged instruction. We are obliged to follow the law set forth by our Supreme Court; therefore, we must reverse these convictions because of the existence of plain error in the proceedings.