Legal Opinion
Mashburn v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama
Decided July 12, 2013No. CR-11-0321PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KELLUM, Judge.
Ellis Louis Mashburn, Jr., appeals the circuit court’s summary dismissal of his petition for postconviction relief filed pursuant to Rule 32, Ala. R.Crim. P., in which he attacked his five capital-murder convictions and his resulting sentence of death.
In 2006, Mashburn pleaded guilty to, and was found by a jury to be guilty of, five counts of capital murder in connection with the murders of his grandmother, Clara Eva Birmingham, and his stepgrand-father, Henry Owen Birmingham, Jr. Specifically, Mashburn was convicted of: (1) the murder of Mr. Birmingham during the course of a…
2Cases cited135 opinions
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- Brady v. MarylandSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Williams v. TaylorSupreme Court of the United States · 2000
- Hill v. LockhartSupreme Court of the United States · 1985
- United States v. BagleySupreme Court of the United States · 1985
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3Cited by22 opinions
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