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EX PARTE McCORMICK

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932 So.2d 124 (2005)

Ex parte Michael W. McCORMICK. (In re State of Alabama v. Lartasha Gaines). Ex parte James H. Hard IV. (In re State of Alabama v. Ronald Ray Rice). Ex parte Joshua Brack Pickett. (In re State of Alabama v. Joshua Brack Pickett).

Supreme Court of Alabama.

November 23, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lynne R. Thrower and K. David Sawyer, Administrative Office of Courts, Montgomery, for petitioners Judge Michael W. McCormick and Judge James H. Hard IV.

William N. Clark and Keith E. Brashier of Redden, Mills & Clark, Birmingham, for petitioner Joshua Brack Pickett.

M. David Barber, district atty., and D. Riggs Walker, deputy district atty., Jefferson County, Birmingham Division, for respondent State of Alabama.

H.W. "Bucky" McMillan, Presiding Judge, and Sue Bell Cobb, Pamela W. Baschab, Greg Shaw, and A. Kelli Wise, Judges, Court of Criminal Appeals, filed a response to the petitions for writ of mandamus.

SMITH, Justice.1

In these three petitions for writs of mandamus, which have been consolidated for purposes of issuing one opinion, we are called upon to construe the legislature's 2000 amendment to Alabama's Split-Sentence Act, § 15-18-8, Ala.Code 1975, ("the 2000 amendment"). The Court of Criminal Appeals held in each action that in splitting the sentence of a defendant who has received a sentence of more than 15

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