Legal Opinion
Ex Parte State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided February 10, 1984No. 82-650PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
On retrial, respondent Beck was convicted of the capital offense of robbery-intentional killing, Code 1975, § 13-11-2 (a)(2). Thereafter, he was sentenced to death.
The Court of Criminal Appeals remanded this case to the trial court for additional inquiry under Witherspoon v. Illinois,391 U.S. 510, 88 S.Ct. 1770, 20 L.Ed.2d 776 (1968). After return of the case from remand, the Court of Criminal Appeals,485 So.2d 1196, entered a decision reversing both the conviction and the sentence of death, because a juror had been improperly excused for cause as a result of her opposition to the death…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Witherspoon v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Beck v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1981
- William Henry Hance v. Walter D. Zant, Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification CenterCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1983
- Kenneth Granviel v. W. J. Estelle, Jr., Director, Texas Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1981
- Ex Parte WhisenhantSupreme Court of Alabama · 1983
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3Cited by6 opinions
- Sneed v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 2007
- Ex Parte BeckSupreme Court of Alabama · 1985
- Beck v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1984
- State v. C.M.Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1999
- Largin v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 2015
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