PER CURIAM . Anthony Ray Hinton challenges his two capital-murder convictions and the resulting sentences of death. We granted certiorari review to determine one issue: whether Hinton was denied effective assistance of counsel because his trial counsel allegedly failed to procure a competent firearms-identification expert to testify in his defense. Background Hinton was convicted in September 1986 of two counts of murder made capital because the murders were committed during the course of...
BOLIN , Justice . We granted certiorari review to determine whether the Court of Criminal Appeals properly dismissed Jarrod Taylor's appeal from the denial of his Rule 32, Ala. R.Crim. P., petition attacking his capital-murder conviction and death sentence, because the notice of appeal was signed by a foreign attorney who purportedly had not been admitted to practice law in Alabama under the rules of the Alabama State Bar governing admission of foreign attorneys pro hac vice. Taylor v....
