Legal Opinion
Ex Parte Taylor
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided May 5, 1995No. 1940151PublishedCited by 139 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
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Michael Shannon Taylor was convicted of the capital murders of Ivan Moore and his wife Lucille, and the trial judge sentenced him to death following the jury's recommendation of that sentence. We affirm both the convictions and his death sentence.
On November 4, 1991, Taylor, then a 19-year-old high school graduate who had returned to his hometown of Gadsden while absent without leave from the Navy, solicited a ride to the home of the Moores, an elderly couple he…
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