State v. Jones

WOODALL, Justice.

The State of Alabama petitions this Court for a writ of mandamus directing the Court of Criminal Appeals to vacate its order granting a mandamus petition filed by Jeremy B. Jones and directing Mobile Circuit Judge Charles A. Graddick to re-cuse himself from presiding over Jones’s postconviction proceedings. We grant the petition and issue the writ.

I. Factual and Procedural Background

In October 2005, Judge Graddick presided over a trial in which Jones was convicted on four counts of capital murder and was sentenced to death. The jury was sequestered throughout the trial, which…