Legal Opinion
Brownfield v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama
Decided December 15, 2017No. CR–14–0863Published
1Opinion of the Court
KELLUM, Judge.
James Ben Brownfield appeals the circuit court's denial of his petition for postconviction relief filed pursuant to *784Rule 32, Ala. R. Crim. P., in which he attacked his capital-murder convictions and sentence of death.
Facts and Procedural History
In 2004, Brownfield was convicted of three counts of capital murder in connection with the murders of his sister, Brenda McCutchin ("Brenda"), his brother-in-law, Latham McCutchin ("Latham"), and Brenda's three-year-old grandson, Joshua Hodges ("Joshua"). Specifically, Brownfield was convicted of murdering Latham during the course of a…
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