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EX PARTE BUTTS

No. 1140438.

183 So.3d 931 (2015)

Ex parte Tanya BUTTS. (In re Gaines C. McCorquodale and Lizann Pezent v. Tanya Butts).

Supreme Court of Alabama.

June 5, 2015.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth J. Mendelsohn of Jemison & Mendelsohn, P.C., Montgomery, for petitioner.

L. Hunter Compton, Jr. , Taylor T. Perry, Jr. , and William H. Traeger III of Manley, Traeger, Perry & Stapp, Demopolis, for respondent Gaines C. McCorquodale.

Tanya Butts petitions this Court for a writ of mandamus directing the Clarke Circuit Court to stay the proceedings in the underlying civil case until a criminal case pending against her is completed. Butts contends that a stay in the civil case is necessary to protect her constitutional right against self-incrimination. We deny the...

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