REL:03/22/2002 NAVADASMITH



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SUPREME COURT OF ALABAMA

OCTOBER TERM, 2001-2002

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1010903

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Ex parte Navada DeWayne Smith (1)



PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI

TO THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS



(In re:  Navada Dewayne Smith

v.

State of Alabama)



(Jefferson Circuit Court, CC-98-1177;

Court of Criminal Appeals, CR-99-1519)







LYONS, Justice.

The petition for the writ of certiorari is denied.

In denying the petition for the writ of certiorari, this Court does not wish to be understood as approving all the language, reasons, or statements of law in the Court of Criminal Appeals' opinion. Horsley v. Horsley, 291 Ala. 782, 280 So. 2d 155 (1973).

WRIT DENIED.

Moore, C.J., and Houston, Johnstone, and Woodall, JJ., concur.

1. The related case in the Court of Criminal Appeals carried the name "Navada Dewayne Smith." The certiorari petition carried the name "Navada DeWayne Smith." Some documents in the record carry the defendant's signature as "Nevada Smith."