Petition DENIED. (orders list)

Reply of petitioner Donald Deardorff filed. (Distributed)

DISTRIBUTED for Conference of April 17, 2009.

Brief of respondent Alabama in opposition filed.

Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due March 9, 2009)

Donald Deardorff, Petitioner, represented by Ursula Bentele

Alabama, Respondent, represented by J. Clayton Crenshaw