“(Sheriff Mike) Blakely received a fair trial, and he will not escape justice by attacking the qualifications of a judge who has been licensed for nearly forty years...” prosecutors from the Alabama Attorney General’s Office wrote.
be thrown out because the judge who presided over his trial didn’t pay membership dues to the Alabama State Bar and was therefore considered “inactive.” The former sheriff’s attorneys also filed a motion asking specially appointed Judge Pamela Baschab to recuse.
In the state’s response, Kyle Beckman, an assistant attorney general, said that under the law, the trial court cannot consider Blakely’s request because the case is already on appeal at the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals. “Should Blakely elect to dismiss his appeal, however, the State is prepared to forcefully refute his misguided allegation in an appropriate form,” Beckman wrote. ”There are no infirmities with Judge Baschab’s appointment by the Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, nor are there any errors in the actions she took in this case.”
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