Legal Opinion
Jimmy Louis Love v. Charlie Jones, Warden Attorney General for the State of Alabama
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided February 8, 1991No. 90-7330PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DUBINA, Circuit Judge:
The petitioner, Jimmy Louis Love (“Love”), is presently serving a sentence of life without parole pursuant to Alabama’s Habitual Felony Offender Act, Ala.Code § 13A-5-9 (1975) (“HFOA”). Love appeals the district court’s denial of his petition for writ of habeas corpus. For the reasons that follow, we reverse the district court and remand for a grant of the writ.
I. FACTUAL BACKGROUND
Love was indicted for participation in a robbery which occurred on March 1, 1983, at the Elks Club in Huntsville, Alabama. According to witnesses, while a man with a rifle wrestled with the…
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