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Cleveland v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama

Decided September 21, 1990PublishedCited by 6 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

570 So.2d 855 (1990)

Roy Sherman CLEVELAND

v.

STATE.

7 Div. 341.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama.

September 21, 1990.

Roy Sherman Cleveland, pro se.

Don Siegelman, Atty. Gen., and Robert E. Lusk, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.

JAMES H. FAULKNER, Retired Justice.

Roy Sherman Cleveland appeals from the denial of two petitions for post-conviction relief. He seeks to invalidate his two 1988 convictions for escape and theft on the grounds that his guilty pleas were involuntary and that his appointed counsel was ineffective.

In May 1988 Cleveland waived indictment and pleaded guilty to two…

Also in this document: Concurrence · Bowen; Concurrence · Bowen.

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
  2. Willis v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1986
  3. Dossey v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1986
  4. Andrews v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1985
  5. Chapman v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1982

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3Cited by6 opinions

  1. Arrington v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1997
  2. Reed v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1999
  3. Rhone v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 2004
  4. McCaskill v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1994
  5. Kaska v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1998

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