Ex Parte Hodges, 1100112 (Ala. 8-26-2011)

WOODALL, Justice.

Melvin Gene Hodges petitioned this Court for a writ of certiorari, which we granted for the limited purpose of determining whether the Court of Criminal Appeals’ judgment, insofar as it affirmed the trial court’s summary denial of Hodges’s petition for postconviction relief filed pursuant to Rule 32, Ala. R.Crim. P., alleging juror misconduct during the voir dire examination, conflicts with this Court’s decision in Ex parte Burgess, 21 So.3d 746 (Ala.2008). We hold that it does, and we reverse and remand.

I. Factual and Procedural History

Hodges was convicted of the capital…