Legal Opinion
Reeves v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama
Decided June 10, 2016No. CR-13-1504PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KELLUM, Judge.
Matthew Reeves appeals the circuit court’s denial of his petition for postconviction relief filed pursuant to Rule 32, Ala. R.Crim. P., in which he attacked his capital-murder conviction and sentence of death.
In 1998, Reeves was convicted of murder made capital because it was committed during the course of a robbery in the first degree, see § 13A-5-40(a)(2), Ala.Code 1975. By a vote of 10-2, the jury recommended that Reeves be sentenced to death for his capital-murder conviction. The trial court followed the jury’s recommendation and sentenced Reeves to death. This Court…
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