Calvin Brooks Zeigler v. State of Alabama

DYER, Senior Circuit Judge:

Zeigler appeals the denial of his petition for writ of habeas corpus. He asserts that the Supreme Court of Alabama’s decision in Ex parte McCurley, 390 So.2d 25 (Ala. 1980) invalidated his 1979 conviction for the possession of the controlled substance Tal-win (pentazocine) by determining that Tal-win was not a controlled substance in 1973, prior to his arrest. The Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals denied his writ of error coram nobis and determined that, notwithstanding the McCurley decision, Talwin became a controlled substance in 1974. Zeig-ler v. State, 412 So.2d…