# Keeton v. State

> Supreme Court of Alabama · September 15, 2000 · 797 So. 2d 421

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/7744863

## Case

- **Full name:** Ex Parte Ronnie Dale Keeton. (Re: Ronnie Dale Keeton v. State).
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Alabama
- **Decided:** September 15, 2000
- **Citations:** 797 So. 2d 421; 2000 Ala. LEXIS 422; 2000 WL 1310510
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Brown
- **Judges:** England, Hooper, Houston, Cook, Lyons, Johnstone, See, Brown
- **Cited by:** 1 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

BROWN, Justice
(dissenting).
I dissent. I believe this Court’s decision in Ex parte Parker, 740 So.2d 432 (Ala. 1999), is incorrect. When I served on the Court of Criminal Appeals, 1 concurred in that Court’s decision in the Parker case, holding that proof of the three prior DUI offenses was a material element of the offense of felony DUI. State v. Parker, 740 So.2d 421, 428-24 (Ala.Crim.App.1996). See also McDuffie v. State, 712 So.2d 1118 (Ala.Crim.App.1997). I continue to believe the Court of Criminal Appeals’ decision in Parker was correct. Therefore, I must dissent.

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