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Pigs fly in ‘bama

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

Since the last edition, innumerable Alabama decisions, mostly wins. In favor of the convicted or condemned Jarrod Taylor v. State, 2010 Ala. Crim. App. LEXIS 83, (Ala. Crim. App.10/1/2010) State concedes error as the trial court erred in failing to rule on all of the postconviction claims before it. State v. LaSameuel Lee Gamble, 2010 Ala. Crim. App. LEXIS 82 (Ala. Crim. App.10/1/2010) . “Gamble was denied the effective assistance of counsel at the penalty phase of his capital-murder trial because counsel failed to investigate and present mitigating evidence.” New penalty phase ordered. Proportionality claim on which the trial court also granted relief, reversed, where Gamble, as the non-shooter received death and the shooter life...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on October 10, 2010 (boomark / email).