Hayes v. State

The appellant, Jerry Day Hayes, a/k/a James Brad Hayes, was convicted of robbery in the first degree and was sentenced to life imprisonment. We affirmed the appellant's conviction and sentence without opinion on August 18, 1995. On October 12, 1995, the appellant filed a Rule 32, Ala.R.Crim.P., petition asserting, among other grounds, 23 separate claims of ineffective assistance of trial counsel, which he also argues his appellate counsel failed to raise and thus led to ineffective performance by appellate counsel as well. The State responded to the petitioner's claims of ineffective…