McDonald v. State

PATTERSON, Judge.

The appellant, Keith 0. McDonald, appeals from the circuit court’s judgment denying his Ala.R.Cr.P. 32 petition in which he contests his 10-year sentence for his conviction of fraudulent use of a credit card pursuant to his guilty plea.

The two claims McDonald asserts in his petition are also asserted on appeal: (1) that he was denied effective assistance of counsel during his sentencing hearing because, he says, counsel failed to object to McDonald’s not being present at the hearing, failed to investigate the importance of his presence, and failed to understand “the judicial…