Murray v. State

This Court granted Louis Murray’s petition for a writ of certiorari to review whether the 1980 pardon for his 1975 robbery conviction also made his earlier felony convictions unavailable as predicate acts for sentence enhancement under the Habitual Felony Offender Act, § 13A-5-9, Ala.Code 1975 (“the HFOA”), and for purposes of a felon-in-possessioh-of-a-pistol conviction, § 13A-ll-72(a), Ala.Code 1975. Because I have determined, as explained below, that Murray’s sentence was illegal, I dissent from this Court’s order quashing the writ.

I. Background

In 1983 Murray, then 37 years old,'was…