Legal Opinion
Ex Parte Beck
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided August 23, 1985No. 83-1198PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
This is a capital murder case.
In 1977, Gilbert Franklin Beck was convicted of capital murder, Code 1975, § 13-11-2 (a)(2), in Etowah County, sentenced to die. His conviction was affirmed by the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals, Beck v. State, 365 So.2d 985 (Ala.Crim.App. 1978), and by this Court, Ex parte Beck,365 So.2d 1006 (Ala. 1978); however, his conviction was overturned by the United States Supreme Court, Beck v. Alabama,447 U.S. 625, 100 S.Ct. 2382, 65 L.Ed.2d 392 (1980), which held the "preclusion clause" of the Alabama Death Penalty Act to be unconstitutional. Based upon the Supreme…
2Cases cited19 opinions
- Illinois v. GatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
- Brinegar v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1949
- Witherspoon v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Beck v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
- Murphy v. FloridaSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
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3Cited by17 opinions
- Magwood v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1985
- Martin v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1988
- Clark v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1993
- Wright v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1985
- Paul F. Leverett v. Larry Spears, WardenCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1989
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