Ex Parte Lucas
Supreme Court of Alabama
1Opinion of the Court
David L. Lucas petitioned this Court for a writ of certiorari to review the Court of Criminal Appeals' judgment affirming the trial court's dismissal of his Rule 32, Ala.R.Crim.P., petition for postconviction relief. We granted the petition to review Lucas's claim that his trial counsel had rendered ineffective assistance at his sentence hearing in failing to object to the introduction of allegedly uncertified copies of prior felony convictions, resulting in the mandatory enhancement to life imprisonment without parole of each of his three sentences.
The Court of Criminal Appeals set out the…
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2Cases cited8 opinions
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- Esters v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · 1985
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