Ex parte Ellen Lanelle Beckham PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS (In re: Ellen Lanelle Beckham v. State of Alabama) (Mobile Circuit Court: CC-18-2384; Criminal Appeals: CR-2023-0442).

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• concluding that the petitioner could reasonably have raised an open question of statutory construction before case law decided the question
• collecting cases in which the Supreme Court held that “an intervening change in case law was sufficiently novel or surprising that a petitioner’s claim based on the change in law could not reasonably have been asserted earlier”

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