Dunaway v. State

MURDOCK, Justice.

Larry Dunaway1 filed a Rule 32, Ala. R.Crim. P., petition in the Barbour Circuit Court (“the Rule 32 court”) challenging his 1997 convictions for the capital murder of his girlfriend Tressa M. Patterson and Patterson’s 22-month-old son James Patterson.2 See Dunaway v. State, 746 So.2d 1021 (Ala.Crim.App.1998) (affirming Duna-way’s convictions) (“Dunaway /”), affd, 746 So.2d 1042 (Ala.1999), cert. denied, 529 U.S. 1089, 120 S.Ct. 1724, 146 L.Ed.2d 645 (2000). The Rule 32 court entered an order denying Dunaway’s petition, and the Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed. See Dunaway…