Gordon v. State

The appellant, Eddie Andrew Gordon, appeals from the circuit court's dismissal of his petition for postconviction relief, filed pursuant to Rule 32, Ala.R.Crim.P., in which he attacked his May 2005 guilty-plea conviction for possession of a controlled substance and his resulting sentence as an habitual felony offender to 20 years' imprisonment; that sentence was split and he was ordered to serve 5 years followed by 3 years of supervised probation. On August 11, 2005, this Court dismissed Gordon's appeal because he failed to move to withdraw his guilty plea or to reserve any issues for…