SMITH, Justice.
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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