Legal Opinion
Sharp v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama
Decided March 5, 2010No. CR-05-2371Published
1Opinion
On Remand from the Alabama Supreme Court and on Application for Rehearing on Return to Second Remand
2Per curiam
The opinion issued on March 23, 2012, on application for rehearing on return to second remand,1 is withdrawn, and the following opinion is substituted therefor.
Jason Michael Sharp was convicted of capital murder because it was committed during the course of a rape or an attempted rape, see § 13A-5-40(a)(3), Ala.Code 1975. By a vote of 11 to 1, the jury recommended that Sharp be sentenced to death. The trial court accepted the jury’s recommendation and sentenced Sharp to death.
On appeal, this…
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