Legal Opinion
Luong v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided March 14, 2014No. 1121097PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STUART, Justice.
In February 2008, a Mobile County grand jury charged Lam Luong with five counts of capital murder in connection with the deaths of his four children. The murders were made capital because: (1) two or more persons were killed “by one act or pursuant to one scheme or course of conduct,” see § 13A-5-40(a)(10), Ala.Code 1975; and (2) each child was less than 14 years of age when he or she was murdered, see § 13A-5-40(a)(15), Ala.Code 1975. Following a jury trial, Luong was convicted of five counts of capital murder. The trial court sentenced Luong to death for each of the five…
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