Ex Parte White

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided March 9, 2001

Supreme Court of Alabama · decided 2001-03-09

Cited by 94 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably Boyd v. State (2003), Hunt v. State (2005)

94 state decisions

Key passage — most relied on by later courts

“[W]hen the facts are undisputed and an appellate court is presented with pure questions of law, that court's review in a Rule 32 proceeding is de novo .”

quoted by 25 later decisions, including Hunt v. State, Goetzman v. State

Relies on 690 So. 2d 1201 - State v. Hill

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Decided 2001-03-09

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¶2The Court of Criminal Appeals, on April 21, 2000, without an opinion, affirmed the trial court's order denying Leroy White's Rule 32, Ala.R.Crim.P., petition. White v. State (No. CR-98-0722), ___ So.2d ___ (Ala.Crim.App. 2000) (table). We deny the petition for the writ of certiorari. In denying the petition, we note that when the facts are undisputed and an appellate court is presented with pure questions of law, that court's review in a Rule 32 proceeding is de novo. State v.Hill, 690 So.2d 1201, 1203 (Ala. 1996).

¶3WRIT DENIED.

¶4Moore, C.J., and Houston, See, Lyons, Brown, Johnstone, Harwood, Woodall, and Stuart, JJ., concur.