Legal Opinion
In Re Nelson
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided September 6, 1996No. 1860528PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
David Larry Nelson was charged with murder made capital by § 13A-5-40(13), Ala. Code 1975. For a defendant to be punished under that section, the defendant must have committed a murder after having been convicted of a first or second degree murder within the preceding 20 years. A jury found Nelson guilty and the judge sentenced him to death by electrocution, after considering the aggravating circumstances listed in Ala. Code 1975, § 13A-5-49. The Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed the conviction and the sentence. Nelson v. State, 681 So.2d 257 (Ala.Crim.App. 1996).
Nelson has not asked this…
2Cases cited23 opinions
- Beck v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
- Ackermann v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1950
- Beck v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1981
- Pirovolos v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1987
- Ritter v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1981
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3Cited by6 opinions
- Lewis v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 2003
- Flowers v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 2000
- Drinkard v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1998
- Borden v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1998
- Brandon Washington v. State of Alabama.Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 2007
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