Ex Parte Kyzer
Supreme Court of Alabama
1Opinion of the Court
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Prior to our decision in Beck v. State, 396 So.2d 645 (Ala. 1980), we granted certiorari to review the judgment of the Court of Criminal Appeals in affirming the death sentence of the petitioner, Dudley Wayne Kyzer. We now review Kyzer's conviction in light of Beck and the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in Godfrey v. Georgia, 446 U.S. 420,100 S.Ct. 1759, 64 L.Ed.2d 398 (1980), which was rendered after we granted the writ in this case.
Kyzer was…
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