Crosslin v. State

In 1981, Samuel Daniel Crosslin was convicted for capital murder and sentenced to death under Alabama's 1975 Death Penalty Law. Alabama Code 1975, § 13A-5-31 (a)(10) ("Murder in the first degree wherein two or more human beings are intentionally killed by the defendant by one or a series of acts."). That conviction was reversed in Crosslin v. State,446 So.2d 675 (Ala.Cr.App. 1983). In 1984, Crosslin was retried for the same capital offense and again convicted and sentenced to death. That conviction must also be reversed.

Crosslin's conviction must be reversed because of the prosecutor's…