Ex parte Michael Lee Ledbetter PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS (In re: Michael Lee Ledbetter v. State of Alabama) (Madison Circuit Court: CC-23-2835; Criminal Appeals: CR-2024-0284).

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• concluding that the respondent’s angry behavior towards the peti- tioner after their divorce was not sufficient for the imminent danger require- ment when there was no abuse after their separation, and the only threat had been communicated before the petitioner left the home
• defining “imminent” to mean “ready to take place,” “near at hand,” “impending,” “hanging threateningly over one’s head,” and “menacingly near”
• “An evidentiary record may support a range of fac- tual inferences about the extent to which a respondent is likely to engage in abusive conduct.”
• a totality-of-circumstances analysis could con- sider whether, after the wife moved out of the parties’ home, the danger to her changed
• appellate court accepts reasonable inferences and credibility choices made by trial court

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