Pride v. State

SHAW, Judge.

Oliver Eugene Pride appeals the circuit court’s summary denial of his Rule 32, Ala.R.Crim.P., petition for postconviction relief, in which he attacked his 1984 conviction for first-degree rape and his resulting sentence, as an habitual felony offender, of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. This Court affirmed Pride’s conviction and sentence on appeal, Pride v. State, 473 So.2d 576 (Ala.Crim.App.1984), and issued a certificate of judgment on July 12,1985.

Pride filed this, his third, Rule 32 petition on March 14, 2007. In his petition, Pride alleged that the trial…