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Lockhart then appealed to the Supreme Court of Alabama. The Court denied his petition in September 2014. [23] [30] In January 2015 Lockhart appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States. [31] The Supreme Court denied his petition in April. [32] In September 2015, Lockhart filed a Rule 32 petition challenging his conviction and death sentence.
Alabama v. Shelton , 535 U.S. 654 (2002), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court upheld the Alabama Supreme Court 's ruling that counsel (a lawyer ) must be provided for the accused in order to impose a suspended prison sentence.
Coker v. Georgia, 433 U.S. 584 (1977) – The death penalty is unconstitutional for rape of an adult woman when the victim is not killed.; Enmund v. Florida, 458 U.S. 782 (1982) – The death penalty is unconstitutional for a person who is a minor participant in a felony and does not kill, attempt to kill, or intend to kill.
A petition for certiorari before judgment, in the Supreme Court of the United States, is a petition for a writ of certiorari in which the Supreme Court is asked to immediately review the decision of a United States District Court, without an appeal having been decided by a United States Court of Appeals, for the purpose of expediting the proceedings and obtaining a final decision.
In Alabama, the common law felony murder rule has been codified in Alabama Code § 13A-6-2(a)(3). It provides that when a person commits various crimes and "in the course of and in furtherance of the crime" another is killed, then the perpetrator is guilty of murder, a "Class A Felony", the punishment of which is not less than 10 years nor more than 99 years in prison, or life in prison.
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Lee v. Macon County Board of Education (1963) – Court rules segregation in schooling was unconstitutional under the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendment. Decision upheld by U.S. Supreme Court. [4] United States v. Alabama (1966) – Court rules poll tax violates the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendment.
Powell v. Alabama, 287 U.S. 45 (1932), was a landmark United States Supreme Court decision in which the Court reversed the convictions of nine young black men for allegedly raping two white women on a freight train near Scottsboro, Alabama. The majority of the Court reasoned that the right to retain and be represented by a lawyer was ...