Legal Opinion
Perkins v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama
Decided November 2, 2012No. CR-08-1927PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WINDOM, Presiding Judge.
Roy Edward Perkins, a death-row inmate at Holman Penitentiary, appeals the circuit court’s denial of his petition for postconviction relief filed pursuant to Rule 32, Ala. R.Crim. P., in which he attacked his capital-murder conviction and sentence of death.
In 1994, Perkins was convicted of murdering Cathy Gilliam during the course of a kidnapping in the first degree, see § 13A-5-40(a)(l), Ala.Code 1975. The jury recommended, by a vote of 10-2, that Perkins be sentenced to death. The circuit court followed the jury’s recommendation and sentenced Perkins to death. On…
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