State v. Williams

The State of Alabama filed this petition for a writ of mandamus directing the Honorable Roy S. Moore, circuit judge for the Sixteenth Judicial Circuit, to vacate his order granting Anthony Williams's motion for a new trial. Williams was convicted of robbery in the first degree and assault in the second degree and was sentenced as a habitual felony offender to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole and to 25 years in prison, both sentences to run concurrently. Williams filed a motion for a new trial; the court appointed new counsel and the motion was amended. Williams alleged in…