Legal Opinion
Ex Parte McWilliams
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided January 29, 1993No. 1911242PublishedCited by 98 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
James Edmund McWilliams, Jr., was convicted by a Tuscaloosa County jury of three counts of capital murder and was sentenced to death. The Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed the conviction and sentence. See McWilliams v. State,640 So.2d 982 (Ala.Crim.App. 1991). This Court granted McWilliams's petition for the writ of certiorari. Rule 39(c), A.R.App.P.
In his petition to this Court, McWilliams presents 26 issues for review. He presented all but six of these issues to the Court of Criminal Appeals. That court issued a detailed and lengthy opinion, which provided a thorough treatment of each of…
2Cases cited54 opinions
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3Cited by98 opinions
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