Because an Alabama search and seizure case came through today, and they are so seldom seen, I went to their website to see if anything had changed, and it has: opinions are now free, and the link on the state opinions tab has been changed. I haven\u2019t looked in a couple of years, I suppose, because, ever since I\u2019ve been doing this site, Alabama was the only state to charge for access to its online opinions. No more. <\/p>\n
And nobody told me. Apparently nobody in Alabama reads this blog. Probably because it\u2019s too depressing to read Alabama\u2019s search and seizure cases? As in this one:<\/p>\n
Petition for review of an unpublished decision of the Court of Criminal Appeals is denied. According to the dissent, defendant did not waive a challenge to a search of a cigarette box during a frisk, which was apparently unjustified because it was an included subsidiary issue. In re T.G.<\/a>, 2015 Ala. LEXIS 49 (April 17, 2015) (Moore, C.J., dissenting).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Because an Alabama search and seizure case came through today, and they are so seldom seen, I went to their website to see if anything had changed, and it has: opinions are now free, and the link on the state … Continue reading