Lamb v. State

James Beauford Lamb, Jr., filed a petition for a writ of certiorari asking this Court to review the Court of Criminal Appeals’ affirmance of the Tallapoosa Circuit Court’s summary dismissal of his Rule 32, Ala. R.Crim. P., petition challenging his 2004 conviction for first-degree sexual abuse and his sentence of 10 years in prison. See Lamb v. State, 113 So.3d 677 (Ala.Crim.App.2010).

This Court granted Lamb’s petition to decide the following issue: Whether the trial court erred in entering a judgment based on an amended written jury verdict resulting from the fact that the polling of the jury…