Birdsong v. State

Gabrien Dona Birdsong appeals the circuit court's summary denial of his Rule 32, Ala.R.Crim.P., petition for postconviction relief, in which he attacked his convictions in 2001 for murder made capital because it was committed during the course of a robbery; for attempted murder; for burglary in the first degree; and for robbery in the first degree. Birdsong was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for the capital-murder conviction, to 99 years' imprisonment for the burglary conviction and the attempted-murder conviction, and to 50 years' imprisonment for the…