EX PARTE PATE

1111448.

145 So.3d 733 (2013)

Ex parte Luther Stancel PATE IV. (In re Luther Stancel Pate IV v. City of Tuscaloosa).

Supreme Court of Alabama.

July 3, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mary Virginia Buck , Northport; and Joel L. Sogol , Tuscaloosa, for petitioner.

Kristen L. Love , asst. city atty., Tuscaloosa, for respondent.

James W. Porter II of Porter, Porter & Hassinger, P.C., Birmingham; James W. Porter III of Haskell Slaughter Young & Rediker, LLC, Washington, DC; and Robert Dowlut , Fairfax, VA, as "of counsel" for amicus curiae NRA Civil Rights Defense Fund, in support of the petitioner.


MAIN, Justice.

Luther Stancel Pate IV petitioned this Court for a writ of certiorari to review the judgment of the Court of Criminal Appeals, affirming Pate's conviction for menacing. We granted Pate's petition to consider, as questions of first impression, whether lawfully arming oneself is a "physical action" so as to fulfill an element of Alabama's menacing statute, see § 13A-6-23(a), Ala.Code 1975, and whether the defense-of-premises statute, see § 13A...

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