Legal Opinion
Roderick Byrd v. State of Alabama.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama
Decided May 1, 2009No. CR-07-0113PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WINDOM, Judge.
Roderick Byrd appeals his four capital-murder convictions and sentences of death. Byrd was convicted of three counts of capital murder for taking the lives of Kim Olney, John Aylesworth, and Dorothy Smith during the course of a robbery. § 13A-5-40(a)(2), Ala.Code 1975. He was also convicted of an additional count of capital murder because two or more people were murdered by one act or pursuant to one scheme or course of conduct. § 13A-5-40(a)(10), Ala.Code 1975. After the penalty phase of Byrd’s trial, the jury recommended, by a vote of 11 to 1, that he be sentenced to death for…
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