Thompson v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama
1Opinion of the Court
McMillan, judge.
The appellant, Anthony Ray Thompson, appeals from the trial court’s denial of his Rule 32, Ala.R.Crim.P., petition. The trial court did not hold an evidentiary hearing. The appellant had been convicted of robbery in the first degree and was sentenced to life in the penitentiary without the possibility of parole. His sole argument on this appeal from the denial of his Rule 32 petition is that he was denied his constitutional right to effective assistance of counsel because, he says, his trial counsel failed to timely object to the admission of certain evidence that was seized…
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