ANKROM v. STATE

CR-09-1148.

152 So.3d 373 (2011)

Hope Elisabeth ANKROM v. STATE of Alabama.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied October 28, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carmen F. Howell and Paul A. Young, Jr. , Enterprise, for appellant.

Troy King and Luther Strange , attys. gen., and Cecil G. Brendle, Jr. , asst. atty. gen., for appellee.

Mary Bauer , Southern Poverty Law Center, Montgomery; Tamar Todd , Drug Policy Alliance, Office of Legal Affairs, Berkeley, CA; and Emma S. Ketteringham and Lynn Paltrow , National Advocate for Pregnant Women, New York, NY, for amici curiae Southern Poverty Law Center, Drug Policy Alliance, and National Advocates for Pregnant Women, in support of the appellant.


Hope Elisabeth Ankrom pleaded guilty to chemical endangerment of a child, a violation of § 26-15-3.2, Ala.Code 1975. The trial court sentenced Ankrom to three years in prison, but the court suspended that sentence and placed her on one year of supervised probation. Ankrom appealed her conviction. We affirm.

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