Legal Opinion
McGahee v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama
Decided May 7, 1993PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ON RETURN TO REMAND
On May 12, 1989, this court affirmed the appellant's convictions for two counts of capital murder but vacated his sentence of death and remanded the cause to the circuit court with instructions that a new sentence hearing be conducted.McGahee v. State, 554 So.2d 454 (Ala.Crim.App. 1989), aff'd,554 So.2d 473 (Ala. 1989).
On remand, a sentencing jury was struck. Prior to the jury's being sworn, the court learned that three of the jurors had read newspaper articles about this case and that two of the jurors had remembered that the appellant had been sentenced to death in his…
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