Ex Parte Dorsey
Supreme Court of Alabama
1Opinion of the Court
Ethan Dorsey was convicted of the felony murders of Richard Cary and Scott Williams and of robbery. With regard to each of those convictions, the trial court sentenced Dorsey to life imprisonment; the sentences were to run consecutively. Dorsey was also convicted of the capital offense of murdering Timothy Bryan Crane, a 13-year-old. See § 13A-5-40(a)(15), Ala. Code 1975. The jury, by a vote of 11 to 1, recommended that on the capital conviction Dorsey be sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. The trial court chose not to follow the jury's advisory verdict, and…
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