610 So. 2d 1242 - Gandy v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. ““This court has ruled that if the State fails to supply the defendant with formal notice of its intent to seek enhancement of his sentence under § 13A-12-250, due process will be served as long as the defendant receives actual notice. Wright v. State, 560 So.2d 1128 (Ala.Cr.App.1989). In this case, the trial court’s decision to continue the hearing another month so that the appellant could defend the statute’s application to him cured any potential due process violations caused by the State’s failure to give the appellant prior notification. Moreover, the continuance of the sentencing hearing would effectively give the appellant actual notice of the State’s intent to invoke the enhancement statute and such actual notice gave the appellant the opportunity to defend the statute’s application to him.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Nabors v. State