Legal Opinion

Broadnax v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama

Decided February 15, 2013No. CR-10-1481PublishedCited by 27 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

On Application for Rehearing

KELLUM, Judge.

The opinion issued on December 14, 2012, is withdrawn, and the following opinion is substituted therefor.

Donald Broadnax appeals the circuit court’s denial of his petition for postconviction relief filed pursuant to Rule 32, Ala. R.Crim. P.

In 1997, Broadnax was convicted of four counts of capital murder for the beating deaths of his wife, Hector Jan Stamps Broadnax, and her four-year-old grandson, DeAngelo Stamps. The murders were made capital (1) because two or more persons were murdered pursuant to one scheme or course of conduct, see §…

2Cases cited74 opinions

  1. Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
  2. Miranda v. ArizonaSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
  3. Wiggins v. Smith, WardenSupreme Court of the United States · 2003
  4. Chambers v. MississippiSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
  5. Kimmelman v. MorrisonSupreme Court of the United States · 1986

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3Cited by27 opinions

  1. Reeves v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 2016
  2. State v. SyedCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 2019
  3. Mashburn v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 2013
  4. Stallworth v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 2013
  5. Reeves v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 2017

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