Ex Parte Maples’s Empirical Analysis

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1. ““In Ex parte Swoope, 724 So.2d 92, 95-96 (Ala.Crim.App.1998), we recognized the long-standing Alabama rule that a party has a duty to monitor the status of his or her case. We stated: “ ‘It is the policy of the judicial system of this state that an accused has a duty to monitor the status of his case. Ex parte Weeks, 611 So.2d 259 (Ala.1992). This policy was discussed in Hart v. City of Priceville, 631 So.2d 301 (Ala.Cr.App.1993): “ ‘ “ ‘[I]t is generally held in Alabama that a party is under a duty to follow the status of his case, whether he is represented by counsel or acting pro se, and that, as a general rule, no duty rests upon either the court or the opposing party to advise that party of his scheduled trial date, see the cases collected at 18A, Ala. Digest Trial § 9(1) (1956).’ Ex parte Weeks, 611 So.2d 259, 262 (Ala.1992). ‘Generally, a party, whether represented by counsel or acting pro se, has a duty to keep abreast of the status of his case, and no duty rests on the court or opposing parties to advise him of the trial date.’ Bowman v. Slade, 501 So.2d 1236 (Ala.Civ.App.1987).” ’ “See also Johns v. A.T. Stephens Enters., Inc., 815 So.2d 511, 515 (Ala.2001) (‘“[A]ll parties litigant, once in court, either for themselves or through their attorneys[,] must keep track of their case, [and] know [its] status...."); Averett v. Averett, 255 Ala. 606, 610 , 52 So.2d 371, 375 (1951)(‘ “A litigant by his attorney must keep up with the progress of his case in court, and he is ”

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