Sanders v. State

James Randall Sanders appeals the circuit court's denial of his § 13A-5-9.1, Ala. Code 1975, motion to reconsider his sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, imposed upon application of the Habitual Felony Offender Act. See Kirby v.State, 899 So.2d 968 (Ala. 2004).

Sanders filed his motion on February 18, 2005, alleging that he had been convicted of robbery in the first degree and sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole based on the use for habitual felony offender purposes of what he claimed were three nonviolent, non-Class A felonies,…