Legal Opinion

Lee v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama

Decided February 10, 2017No. CR–15–1415Published

1Opinion of the Court

WINDOM, Presiding Judge.

Jeffrey Lee appeals from the circuit court's summary dismissal of his second postconviction petition filed pursuant to Rule 32, Ala. R. Crim. P., in which he challenged his three capital-murder convictions and sentences of death.

Lee was convicted of two counts of capital murder for killing Jimmy Ellis and Elaine Thompson during the course of a robbery, see § 13A-5-40(a)(2), Ala. Code 1975, and one count of capital murder for killing two people, Ellis and Thompson, by one act or pursuant to one scheme or course of conduct, see *1000§ 13A-5-40(a)(10), Ala. Code 1975. He was…

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