Legal Opinion

Ex Parte Pressley

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided April 7, 2000No. 1981061PublishedCited by 45 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

770 So.2d 143 (2000)

Ex parte Marcus PRESSLEY.

(Re Marcus Pressley v. State.)

1981061.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

January 28, 2000.[*]

Modified on Denial of Rehearing April 7, 2000.

John C. Robbins, Birmingham; and Dennis Jacobs, Birmingham, for petitioner.

Bill Pryor, atty. gen., and A. Vernon Barnett IV, asst. atty. gen., for respondent.

COOK, Justice.

In September 1997, in the Shelby Circuit Court, Marcus Pressley was convicted by a jury of the capital murder of John Burleson and Janice Littleton, murders committed during the course of a robbery. See § 13A-5-40(a)(2), Ala.Code 1975. He was sentenced…

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2Cases cited25 opinions

  1. Batson v. KentuckySupreme Court of the United States · 1986
  2. J. E. B. v. Alabama ex rel. T. B.Supreme Court of the United States · 1994
  3. Strauder v. West VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1880
  4. Edmonson v. Leesville Concrete Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1991
  5. JEB v. Alabama Ex Rel. TBSupreme Court of the United States · 1994

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3Cited by45 opinions

  1. Robert A. Buell v. Betty Mitchell, WardenCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 2001
  2. Beazley v. JohnsonCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 2001
  3. Ex Parte DobyneSupreme Court of Alabama · 2001
  4. Jackson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 2000
  5. Smith v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 2000

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