Legal Opinion
Petric v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama
Decided February 15, 2013No. CR-09-0386PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BURKE, Judge.
Steven Petrie was convicted of murder made capital because it was committed during a rape in the first degree, see § 13A-5-40(a)(3), Ala.Code 1975. The jury, by a vote of 10 to 2, recommended that Petrie be sentenced to death. The trial court followed the jury’s recommendation. Petrie appeals his conviction and his sentence.
Facts
The State’s evidence tended to show the following. On March 9, 1990, the victim, Toni Lim, was found dead on her bed in the apartment she shared with Martha Milinda Higginbotham. The apartment was located in Homewood, a suburb of Birmingham. Higginbotham…
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