Ex Parte Pettibone

A jury convicted Norman Pettibone of third-degree robbery. The trial court sentenced him to 99 years' imprisonment as a habitual felony offender. The Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed his conviction and sentence by an unpublished memorandum. Pettibonev. State (No. CR-01-0159, May 24, 2002), 860 So.2d 914 (Ala.Crim.App. 2002) (table). This Court granted certiorari review to determine whether the Court of Criminal Appeals erred in refusing to appoint new appellate counsel for Pettibone after his lawyer filed a brief pursuant to Anders v. California,386 U.S. 738, 87 S.Ct. 1396, 18 L.Ed.2d 493…