Adams v. State

COBB, Judge.

Franklin Lane Adams appeals from the circuit court’s summary denial of his Rule 32, Ala.R.Crim.P., petition for postconviction relief. The petition challenged Adams’s July 25, 1997, conviction for robbery in the third degree and his sentence of 18 years in prison. No direct appeal was taken from that conviction. Adams *240had filed a prior Rule 82 petition; that petition was summarily denied on April 2, 1999. The petition at issue here was deemed filed on August 24, 2000.

Adams claimed in his petition that the trial court did not have jurisdiction to impose an 18-year sentence because,…