EX PARTE STATE

1920169.

622 So.2d 935 (1993)

Ex parte State of Alabama. (Re Winston Allen SINGLETON, Jr. v. STATE).

Supreme Court of Alabama.

June 18, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James H. Evans, Atty. Gen., and Gilda Branch Williams, Asst. Atty. Gen., for petitioner.

W. Gregory Hughes, Mobile, for respondent.


PER CURIAM.

WRIT QUASHED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED.

SHORES, ADAMS, HOUSTON, STEAGALL and KENNEDY, JJ., concur.

MADDOX, J., concurs in the result.

MADDOX, Justice (concurring in the result).

We issued the writ of certiorari requested by the State to reconsider the rule in Alabama that prior convictions based on pleas of nolo contendere are not admissible in evidence to impeach a criminal defendant's credibility as a witness. The Court...

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