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SUPREME COURT OF ALABAMA
SPECIAL TERM, 2007 _________________________ 1060840 _________________________ Ex parte William Crews PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS (In re: William Crews v. State of Alabama) (Morgan Circuit Court, CC-95-441; Court of Criminal Appeals, CR-06-0291) BOLIN, Justice. We hereby suspend the provisions of Rule 39(g) and (h), Ala. R. App. P., allowing the petitioner and the respondent to

1060840 file a brief and to request oral argument, and we summarily grant the writ. In an opinion released today, this Court

overrules Wells v. State, 941 So. 2d 1008 (Ala. Crim. App. 2005), to the extent that it created a limitation on a trial court's jurisdiction to consider successive

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