Legal Opinion
Roberts v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama
Decided October 4, 2013No. CR-11-1855PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
JOINER, Judge.
Barbara Ann Roberts was convicted of capital murder, see § 13A-5-40(a)(2), and first-degree robbery, see § 13A-8-41, Ala. Code 1975, and was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. This Court affirmed Roberts’s conviction and sentence. Roberts v. State, 62 So.3d 1071 (Ala.Crim.App.2010). On January 24, 2011, Roberts “requested appointment of counsel to handle a Rule 32[,Ala. R.Crim. P.,] petition” and also “requested that an attorney other than Ms. Cochran-Morgan be appointed” to represent her. (C. 2.) Cochran-Morgan had represented Roberts in posttrial…
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