Legal Opinion
Woods v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama
Decided April 29, 2016No. CR-10-0695PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WELCH, Judge.
Nathaniel Woods, an inmate on death row at Holman Correctional Facility, appeals the Jefferson Circuit Court’s summary dismissal of his petition for postcon-viction relief filed pursuant to Rule 32, Ala. R.Crim. P., attacking his capital-murder convictions and sentence of death.
In December 2005, Woods was convicted of four counts of capital murder for murdering Birmingham Police Officers Carlos Owen, Harley A. Chisholm III, and Charles R. Bennett, while they were on duty, and for murdering the three officers pursuant to one scheme or course of conduct, violations of §…
2Cases cited67 opinions
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- Norman Elmer Miller v. J.C. Keeney, SuperintendentCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1989
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3Cited by4 opinions
- Nathaniel Woods v. Commissioner, Alabama Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2020
- Saunders v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 2016
- Nathaniel Woods v. Warden Holman Correctional FacilityCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2020
- Woods v. Dunn (DEATH PENALTY)District Court, M.D. Alabama · 2020