Ex Parte Walker
Supreme Court of Alabama
1Opinion of the Court
1 The defendant filed his petition under the name Ruffus Walker. The related case in the Court of Criminal Appeals spelled his name Rufus Walker. Materials filed in the Supreme Court carry both spellings.
Ruffus Walker was convicted in 1993 of murder made capital because it was committed during a robbery and a rape, and he was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. On direct appeal, the Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed his conviction, without opinion. Walker v. State, 655 So.2d 65 (Ala.Crim.App. 1994) (table).
This present certiorari review is of a judgment of the…
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2Cases cited7 opinions
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