Ex Parte Land

The petitioner, Michael Jeffrey Land, filed this petition for a writ of mandamus requesting that we direct the Honorable James H. Hard IV, circuit judge for the Tenth Judicial Circuit, to grant his discovery motion. In December 1993, Land was convicted of two counts of murder made capital because the murder of Candace Brown was committed during the commission of a burglary and a kidnapping. Land was sentenced to death by electrocution. This Court affirmed his conviction and his death sentence. Land v. State, 678 So.2d 201 (Ala.Cr.App. 1995), aff'd,678 So.2d 224 (Ala.), cert. denied, 519 U.S.…