EX PARTE ANKROM

1110176 and 1110219.

152 So.3d 397 (2013)

Ex Parte Hope Elisabeth ANKROM. (In re Hope Elisabeth Ankrom v. State of Alabama). Ex parte Amanda Helaine Borden Kimbrough. (In re Amanda Helaine Borden Kimbrough v. State of Alabama).

Supreme Court of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied in no. 1110176 December 13, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul Young , Enterprise; and Carmen F. Howell , Enterprise, for petitioner Hope Elisabeth Ankrom.

Jake Watson of Watson Graffeo PC, Huntsville; and Brian White of White & Oakes, LLC, Decatur, for petitioner Amanda Helaine Borden Kimbrough.

Luther Strange , atty. gen., and John C. Neiman, Jr. , deputy atty. gen., and Cecil G. Brendle, Jr. (1110176) and Michael G. Dean (1110219), asst. attys. gen., for respondent.

Allison Neal , Montgomery, for American Civil Liberties Union of Alabama Foundation; and Alexa Kolbi-Molinas , New York, New York, for ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project, amici curiae, in support of the petitioners.

Kathryn A. King , Cullman, for amicus curiae Alabama Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, in support of the petitioners.

Lisa W. Borden of Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC, Birmingham, for amicus curiae State Representative Patricia Todd, in support of the petitioners.

Mary Bauer , Southern Poverty Law Center, Montgomery; Tamar Todd , Drug Policy Alliance, Berkeley, California; and Emma S. Ketteringham and Lynn M. Paltrow , National Advocates for Pregnant Women, New York, New York, for amici curiae Southern Poverty Law Center, Drug Policy Alliance, and the National Advocates for Pregnant Woman, in support of the petitioners.

A. Eric Johnston , Birmingham; and Mathew D. Staver , Liberty Counsel, Maitland, Florida, for amicus curiae Liberty Counsel, in support of the respondent.

Mary Bauer , Southern Poverty Law Center, Montgomery; Tamar Todd , Drug Policy Alliance, Berkeley, California; and Emma S. Ketteringham and Lynn M. Paltrow , National Advocates for Pregnant Women, New York, New York, for amici curiae American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry, American Medical Women's Association, American Nurses Association, The Alabama Women's Resource Network, American Society of Addiction Medicine, Global Lawyers and Physicians, Institute for Health and Recovery, International Center for Advancement of Addiction Treatment of the Beth Israel Medical Center Baron Edmond de Rothschild Chemical Dependency Institute, National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum, National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women's Health, National Association of Social Workers, National Association of Social Workers-Alabama Chapter, National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, Inc., National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health, National Organization for Women-Alabama, National Perinatal Association, National Women's Health Network, National Women's Law Center, Our Bodies Ourselves, Southern Center for Human Rights, Sheila Blume, MD, Wendy Chavkin, MPH, MD, Nancy Day, MPH, PhD, Deborah A. Frank, MD, Leslie Hartley Gise, MD, Stephen R. Kandall, MD, and Linda Worley MD, in support of the petitioners.

Mary Bauer , Montgomery; Tamar Todd , Drug Policy Alliance, Berkeley, California; and Emma S. Ketteringham and Lynn M. Paltrow , National Advocates for Pregnant Women, New York, New York, for amici curiae All Our Lives and Experts in Treatment of Addiction in Women, in support of the petitioners (and also joining in the brief filed on behalf of The American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry et al.).


Hope Elisabeth Ankrom and Amanda Helaine Borden Kimbrough ("the petitioners") each petitioned this Court for a writ of certiorari to review the Court of Criminal Appeals' decisions in their cases. We granted the petitions and consolidated these cases, each of which presents the same issue...

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