EX PARTE PEAGLER

No. 86-567.

516 So.2d 1369 (1987)

Ex parte Michael Dean PEAGLER. (Re: Michael Dean Peagler v. State of Alabama)

Supreme Court of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied September 25, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen K. Simpson, Montgomery, for petitioner.

Don Siegelman, Atty. Gen., and J. Anthony McLain and James F. Hampton, Sp. Asst. Attys. Gen., for respondent.


MADDOX, Justice.

The question presented on this petition for certiorari is the effect of a prosecutor's asking a defense witness other than the accused whether he had ever been convicted of a felony or a crime involving moral turpitude, where the prosecuting attorney was not prepared, when the witness gave a negative answer, to offer anything other than a FBI "rap sheet" as documentary proof of the conviction.

Petitioner was convicted for possession of cocaine...

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