Madden v. State

BURKE, Judge.

Joseph Wayne Madden appeals the circuit court's summary denial of his Rule 32, Ala. R. Crim. P., petition for postconviction relief. The petition challenged his 1983 convictions for three counts of first-degree receiving stolen property, a violation of § 13A-8-17, Ala. Code 1975, and his resulting concurrent sentences of 10 years' imprisonment; those sentences were suspended, and Madden was placed on five years' probation. Madden did not take a direct appeal from his convictions.

On or about March 17, 2017, Madden filed the instant petition, his sixth, in which he alleged that the…