Legal Opinion
Spencer v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama
Decided February 6, 2015No. CR-12-1837PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WINDOM, Presiding Judge.
Kerry M. Spencer, an inmate on death row at Holman Correctional Facility on Alabama’s death row, appeals the Jefferson Circuit Court’s summary dismissal of his petition for postconviction relief filed pursuant to Rule 32, Ala. R.Crim. P., attacking his capital-murder convictions and sentences of death.
In 2005,' Spencer was convicted of murdering Birmingham Police Officers Carlos Owen, Harley A. Chisholm III,* and Charles R. Bennett and of attempting to murder Officer Michael Collins. The jury recommended that Spencer be sentenced to life imprisonment without the…
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