# Lane v. State > Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · November 8, 2013 · 169 So. 3d 1076 URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/4820289 ## Case - **Full name:** Anthony LANE v. STATE of Alabama - **Court:** Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama - **Decided:** November 8, 2013 - **Citations:** 169 So. 3d 1076; 2013 Ala. Crim. App. LEXIS 103; 2013 WL 5966905 - **Precedential status:** Published - **Opinion:** Dissent by Welch - **Judges:** Burke, Joiner, Kellum, Welch, Windom - **Cited by:** 14 later opinions in the Frix Law Library ## Citator (automated) - No negative treatment found by the automated citator. That is not the same as a confirmation that the case is good law; read the citing cases. - Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/4820289 ## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction) - holding that plain error did not result from the circuit court’s failure to hold a suppression hearing when, among other things, “defense counsel never raised the issue of suppression at any time during the trial, nor did he object when the recording of Lane’s confession was e… ## Opinion text WELCH, Judge, dissenting. I continue to adhere to my belief that Anthony Lane’s death sentence was not imposed following a correct consideration *1154 of the evidence regarding mental retardation. For the reasons I set forth in my dissent to this Court’s original opinion, I believe that Lane established adaptive deficiencies in more than two skill areas of adaptive functioning and, thus, that Lane is exempt from the imposition of a death sentence. See Lane v. State, 169 So.3d 1076 (Ala.Crim.App.2013) (Welch, J., dissenting). Moreover, I continue to believe, as I asserted in my dissent, that Lane’s journal containing his drawings and rap lyrics was inadmissible evidence of Lane’s guilt, and its admission constituted reversible error. Accordingly, I respectfully dissent. --- Source: Frix Law Library, https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/4820289. Public record. Not legal advice.