Legal Opinion
Ex Parte Turner
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided June 27, 2008No. 1061477PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SEE, Justice.
Darryl Dewayne Turner (“Turner”) petitions this Court for the writ of mandamus directing the Court of Criminal Appeals to vacate its June 29, 2007, order in which it instructed Judge James W. Woodroof, Jr., to set aside his order granting discovery of certain institutional files and prosecution records. We conclude that Turner has not demonstrated a clear legal right to the relief sought; therefore, we deny the petition.
Facts and Procedural History
In 1999 Turner was convicted under §§ 13A-5-40(a)(2) and (a)(3), AIa.Code 1975, 1 of the capital murder of Barbara Wilson and was…
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