Kegler v. State

The appellant, Charles Anthony Kegler, appeals the circuit court’s summary denial of his petition for postconviction relief filed pursuant to Rule 32, Ala. R.Crim. P.

In February 1987, Kegler pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced to 25 years in prison. Kegler did not appeal his conviction.1

In May 2010, over 23 years after he pleaded guilty, Kegler filed his 7th post-conviction petition in the Jefferson Circuit Court. In this petition Kegler alleged that his sentence was illegal because, he argued, the State did not invoke the Habitual Felony Offender Act (“HFOA”) and that at the…