Fowler v. State

STRINE, Chief Justice:

*17 In this case, defendant Alan Fowler was admittedly present at two melees during which shots were fired, and in one of those incidents, a mother of two was twice struck by bullets while shielding her sleeping children from the gunfire. Fowler was convicted of serious crimes, several of which were premised on him not just being present and part of a group of folks bent on vengeance for various social grievances against people they knew, but on his being the shooter. After Fowler's trial and direct appeal were over, it emerged during post-conviction proceedings that the…