Ex Parte Knotts

The petitioner, William Thomas Knotts, filed this petition for a writ of mandamus directing the Honorable Charles Price, circuit judge for the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit, to recuse himself from hearing Knotts's Rule 32, Ala.R.Crim.P., petition for post-conviction relief. Knotts was convicted of two counts of capital murder and was sentenced to death. He was also convicted of escape, three counts of theft of property, and two counts of burglary. His convictions were affirmed, but the case was remanded for resentencing on several of the theft of property and burglary convictions. Knotts v.…