Johnson v. State

The appellant, Xavier Mohandas Johnson, appeals from the circuit court's denial of his petition for postconviction relief, filed pursuant to Rule 32, Ala.R.Crim.P., in which he attacked his June 2005 guilty-plea conviction for murder and his resulting sentence as an habitual felony offender with one prior felony conviction to 50 years' imprisonment. No direct appeal was taken from this conviction.

On July 6, 2006, Johnson filed this, his first, Rule 32 petition in which he alleged: (1) that his conviction was obtained by a plea of guilty that was unlawfully induced or not voluntarily made…