Ex Parte Christie Michelle Scott. (in Re Christie Michelle Scott v. State of Alabama)

Summary

The Supreme Court of Alabama denied Christie Michelle Scott's petition for a writ of certiorari without opinion, leaving her capital-murder convictions and death sentence undisturbed. The petition raised numerous issues, including the admission of evidence concerning two earlier fires, but the controlling disposition supplies no reasoning. Chief Justice Moore, concurring in part and dissenting in part, would have granted relief on the Rule 404(b) issue because the earlier-fire evidence was inadmissible propensity evidence and was not harmless.