Legal Opinion
Saunders v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama
Decided December 16, 2016No. CR–13–1064PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WELCH, Judge.
The appellant, Timothy Wade Saunders, an inmate currently on death row at Holman Correctional Facility, appeals the Baldwin Circuit Court's summary dismissal of his petition for postconviction relief filed pursuant to Rule 32, Ala. R. Crim. P., attacking his capital-murder conviction and sentence of death.
In August 2005, Saunders was convicted of murdering 77-year-old Melvin Clemons during the course of a robbery and a burglary and of attempting to murder Agnes Clemons. Saunders was sentenced to death for his capital-murder convictions and to life imprisonment for his…
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