Ex Parte State, Ex Rel. Attorney General

Feb 5, 1982
80-685
Versions:410 So. 2d 134
1982 Ala. LEXIS 3018

Lead Opinion

FAULKNER, Justice.

Writ quashed as being improvidently granted.

JONES, SHORES, EMBRY, BEATTY and ADAMS, JJ., concur. TORBERT, C.J., and MADDOX and AL-MON, JJ., dissent.



Dissenting Opinion

MADDOX, Justice

(dissenting).

I respectfully dissent. In my opinion, Burgett v. Texas, 389 U.S. 109, 88 S.Ct. 258, 19 L.Ed.2d 319 and Baldasar v. Illinois, 446 U.S. 222, 100 S.Ct. 1585, 64 L.Ed.2d 169, are inapplicable to a revocation of probation proceeding because an uncounseled conviction is not invalid for all purposes. Cf. Lewis v. United States, 445 U.S. 55, 100 S.Ct. 915, 63 L.Ed.2d 198 (1980).

TORBERT, C. J., and ALMON, J., concur.