Richards v. State

SHAW, Judge.

Curtis D. Richards appeals the circuit court’s denial of his Rule 32, Ala.R.Crim. P., petition for postconviction relief, in which he attacked his November 1999 conviction for attempted second-degree rape and his resulting sentence of 10 years’ imprisonment. This Court affirmed Richards’s conviction and sentence on direct appeal in an unpublished memorandum issued on August 18, 2000. See C.R. v. State (CR-99-0904), 814 So.2d 1014 (Ala.Crim.App.2000)(table). This Court issued a certificate of judgment on October 17, 2000.

On September 3, 2002, Richards filed the present petition,…