Moody v. State

Walter Leroy Moody, Jr., appeals the circuit court’s summary dismissal of his petition for postconviction-relief, filed pursuant to Rule 32, Ala. R.Crim. P.

In 1996, after a jury trial in which he represented himself, Moody was convicted of two counts of capital murder for the 1989 pipe-bomb murder of Judge Robert S. Vance of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. The murder was made capital (1) because it was committed by means of explosives or explosion, see § 13A-5-40(a)(9), Ala.Code 1975, and (2) because Judge Vance was a public official and the murder stemmed from,…