Ex Parte Tanya Butts. (in Re Gaines C. McCorquodale and Lizann Pezent v. Tanya Butts)

Summary

The Alabama Supreme Court denied Tanya Butts’s petition for a writ of mandamus seeking to stay the civil litigation pending her criminal case. The Court held that the valuation hearing was not a parallel proceeding and therefore did not threaten her Fifth Amendment rights, and that mandamus was unavailable because the trial court had not yet refused to decide a stay of the remaining civil claims. Consequently, the stay previously ordered by this Court was lifted.