Legal Opinion
Ex Parte Butler
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided March 16, 2007No. 1051636Published
1Opinion of the Court
972 So.2d 821 (2007)
Ex parte Lacy Ray BUTLER.
(In re Lacy Ray Butler
v.
State of Alabama).
1051636.
Supreme Court of Alabama.
March 16, 2007.
Lacy Ray Butler, pro se.
Troy King, atty. gen., Kevin C. Newsom, deputy atty. gen., and J. Thomas Leverette, asst. atty. gen., for respondent.
WOODALL, Justice.
In 1984, Lacy Ray Butler was convicted of first-degree rape and first-degree robbery and was sentenced for each offense, as a habitual felony offender, to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. See § 13A-5-9, Ala.Code 1975. In March 2005, Butler filed a motion pursuant to § 13A-5-9.1,…
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2Cases cited17 opinions
- United States v. CottonSupreme Court of the United States · 2002
- Cooper v. ReynoldsSupreme Court of the United States · 1870
- Ex Parte SeymourSupreme Court of Alabama · 2006
- Kirby v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 2004
- Woolf v. McGaughSupreme Court of Alabama · 1911
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