Ex Parte Jenkins’s Empirical Analysis

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5 state decisions

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1. “'Under our holding in Seymour , a defect in a criminal indictment no longer deprives the trial court of jurisdiction, as it had under the common law, but instead is a nonjurisdictional error that may be waived.' Ex parte Jenkins , 992 So.2d 1248 , 1250 (Ala. 2007).”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Turner v. State · 245 So. 3d 633 - T.B.P. v. State

2. ““By enacting § 13A-5-9.1, the legislature conferred on the trial court continuing jurisdiction over motions for sentence reconsideration, to be exercised by only the sentencing judge or the presiding judge.... Because the judge who denied Jenkins’s first motion for sentence reconsideration was neither the sentencing judge nor the presiding judge, under § 13A-5-9.1 he was without jurisdiction to consider that motion, and the denial of that motion resulted in a void judgment.””

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

3. ““Because § 18A-5-9.1 confers on a court continuing jurisdiction over a motion for sentence reconsideration, to be exercised by only the sentencing judge or the presiding judge, [the judge who ruled on the first motion], who was neither, did not have jurisdiction over Jenkins’s first motion for sentence reconsideration. Accordingly, the judgment purporting to deny that motion is a void judgment.””

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