Court Opinion

ID: 7751630
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-30 20:20:11.821984+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:40:15.960856
License: Public Domain

I concur in affirming the appellant's conviction; however, I would reverse his sentence and remand the case for resentencing in accordance with Judge Shaw's special writing in Poole v. State, [Ms. CR-99-1200, August 31, 2001] ___ So.2d ___, ___ (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, ___ So.2d at ___. 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 that this Court should notice and remedy on appeal. Therefore, as to the sentencing issue, I dissent.