Legal Opinion
Williams v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama
Decided November 12, 1985PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
This is an appeal of the trial court's denial of Williams's petition for writ of error coram nobis (as amended by the November 28 petition) which contests the validity of his 1983 conviction for the offense of robbery in the first degree and a resulting sentence of 40 years' imprisonment. The alleged robbery occurred June 28, 1981, and Williams's trial took place on September 5 and 6, 1983. Williams's defense at trial, corroborated by his co-defendant, was that he knew absolutely nothing of the robbery committed by his co-defendant (which occurred while he remained in the getaway car) until…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Raymond L. Buckelew and James Laney Jenkins v. United States of America, Judson Lee Drane v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1978
- John Lewis Washington v. John C. Watkins, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1981
- Peter James Schwander v. Frank Blackburn, Warden, Louisiana State Penitentiary and William J. Custe, Jr., Attorney General of the State of LouisianaCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1985
- Curtis Dale Morrow v. Robert F. Parratt, Jr., Warden, Nebraska Penal and Correctional ComplexCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1978
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3Cited by14 opinions
- McNair v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1997
- State v. HamletCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 2005
- Reynolds v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1993
- Whitson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 2012
- Holland v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1994
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