Brooks v. State

The appellant, Rodgrick Cornilius Brooks, appeals the circuit court's summary denial of his Rule 32, Ala.R.Crim.P., petition for postconviction relief, in which he attacked his 1997 convictions for felony murder and first-degree robbery and his resulting consecutive sentences of 30 years' imprisonment for the felony-murder conviction and 20 years' imprisonment for the robbery conviction. This Court affirmed Brooks's convictions and sentences on direct appeal in an unpublished memorandum and issued a certificate of judgment on July 8, 1998. See Brooksv. State (CR-97-0540), 738 So.2d 941…