Bland v. State

Terry Bland petitions this Court to review the Court of Criminal Appeals’ affir-mance, by unpublished memorandum, of the circuit court’s denial of his most recent Rule 32, Ala. R.Crim. P., petition for post-conviction relief. Bland v. State (No. CR-14-0181, March 6, 2015), — So.3d - (Ala.Crim.App.2015) (table). Bland challenges his October 9, 1991, conviction for murder and his sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. He argues that the circuit court lacked the jurisdiction to sentence him under the Alabama Habitual Felony Offender Aet, § 13A-5-9, Ala.Code 1975 (“the…