Owen v. State

The appellant, Donald Lewis Owen, was convicted of capital murder of a police officer while the officer was in the line of duty. He was sentenced to imprisonment for life without the possibility of parole.

This appeal is from a conviction in the appellant's third trial for this capital murder. The appellant was originally tried and convicted in 1981. This court affirmed that judgment.Owen v. State, 418 So.2d 214 (Ala.Cr.App. 1982). As a result of a successful petition for habeas corpus filed in the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, attacking the admission into evidence of the appellant's…