Ex Parte Mark Allen Jenkins. (in Re Mark Allen Jenkins v. State of Alabama)

Summary

The Supreme Court of Alabama affirmed the Court of Criminal Appeals’ judgment upholding the denial of Jenkins’s second Rule 32 petition. The court held that verbatim adoption of a prevailing party’s proposed order is not reversible error absent a record-based showing that the order does not reflect the trial court’s independent judgment, and found no such showing here. The court affirmed on the certiorari ground presented and denied the writ as to the remaining grounds.