Hinton v. State

After Remand by the Alabama Supreme Court

KELLUM, Judge.

In 1986, Anthony Ray Hinton was convicted of two counts of capital murder and was sentenced to death. This Court and the Alabama Supreme Court affirmed Hinton’s convictions and sentence on appeal. Hinton v. State, 548 So.2d 547 (Ala.Crim.App.1988) (“Hinton I”), aff'd, 548 So.2d 562 (Ala.1989) (“Hinton II”). In 1990, Hinton filed a Rule 32, Ala. R.Crim. P., petition for postconviction relief, in which he alleged, among other things, that his trial counsel had been ineffective for not hiring a qualified firearms-identification expert for…