JUDGMENT ISSUED.

Rehearing DENIED.

DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/5/2018.

Petition for Rehearing filed.

Petition for certiorari GRANTED, judgment REVERSED. Opinion per curiam. (Detached Opinion). Justice Ginsburg, concurring. (Detached Opinion). Justice Breyer, concurring. (Detached Opinion).

Motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed by respondent GRANTED.

DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/3/2017.

DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/27/2017.

DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/13/2017.

DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/6/2017.

Reply of petitioner Jefferson Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections filed.

Motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed by respondent Vernon Madison.

Brief of respondent Vernon Madison in opposition filed.

Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due September 5, 2017)

Jefferson Dunn, Comm'r, AL DOC, Petitioner, represented by Andrew L. Brasher

Vernon Madison, Respondent, represented by Angela Leigh Setzer