Bartlett v. ALABAMA ABC BD.’s Empirical Analysis

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6 state decisions

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1. “"On April 6, 1989, at approximately 7:35 p.m., two ABC Board agents and an 18-year-old minor arrived at Jean and Frank Bartlett's place of business, the `Package Palace,' to conduct what the agents referred to as a `minor operative.' One of the agents stayed outside with a video camera, while the other agent went inside to observe the transaction. The minor entered the store and requested a 200-milliliter bottle of Jack Daniel's whiskey, which an employee of Bartlett's business, Robert Douglas Howard, retrieved from the shelf. The agent who was inside the store testified that Howard checked the minor's valid driver's license before proceeding. The minor then handed Howard a $10 bill to pay for the $5.80 bottle of whiskey. Howard handed the minor his change, and the minor exited the store with the whiskey. "Subsequently, both agents and the minor entered the store and identified themselves to Howard as participants in the ABC Board undercover operation. The agents informed Howard that he had committed a violation of law and requested to see, and then reviewed, his driver's license. One of the agents then asked to see the $10 bills in the register. Howard cooperated. The agent testified that included in the bills Howard handed him was a $10 bill the serial number of which he had previously recorded. Howard was arrested and was charged with selling alcoholic beverages to a minor. The Bartletts were not on the premises when the sale or arrest occurred. "The Bartletts received a l”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 654 So. 2d 1149 - Barlett v. Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control Board · 654 So. 2d 1149 - Ex Parte State Alcoholic Bev. Control Bd.

2. “`However, because of the public policy considerations involved in using minors as decoys in enforcing the laws regulating the sale and purchase of intoxicating liquors in this State, this Court on April 4, 1992, issued the writ ex mero motu in order to review the judgment of the Court of Civil Appeals and to set some general guidelines as to when and under what circumstances minors may be used in undercover operations.'”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. 654 So. 2d 1149 - Ex Parte State Alcoholic Bev. Control Bd. · 993 So. 2d 898 - Ex Parte State of Alabama Dept. of Revenue