JOINER, Judge. Kinard Julius Henson appeals his guilty-plea convictions and subsequent sentences for attempted murder, a violation of 13A-4-2, Ala.Code 1975, and bribing a witness, a violation of 13A-10-121, Ala. Code 1975. 1 Henson was sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment on each charge, the sentences to run concurrently with the other, as well as with any other sentence. Henson now appeals, arguing that his pleas were not voluntary and, further, that both of his sentences fall outside...
BURKE, Judge. Keokie Tareze Hudson was convicted of two counts of attempted murder, violations of 13A-4-2, Ala.Code 1975, and one count of discharging a firearm into an occupied vehicle, a violation of 13A-11-61, Ala.Code 1975. He was sentenced as a habitual felony offender to concurrent sentences of life imprisonment for each conviction of attempted murder, and to 20 years' imprisonment for the shooting-into-an-occupied-vehicle conviction. Additionally, he was fined $50, payable to the...
BURKE , Judge . Hope Elisabeth Ankrom pleaded guilty to chemical endangerment of a child, a violation of 26-15-3.2, Ala.Code 1975. The trial court sentenced Ankrom to three years in prison, but the court suspended that sentence and placed her on one year of supervised probation. Ankrom appealed her conviction. We affirm. Facts and Procedural History At the guilty-plea hearing, the parties stipulated to the following facts: "On January 31, 2009, the defendant, Hope Ankrom, gave birth...
PER CURIAM. The petitioner, Vikrum Singh Kandola, filed this petition for a writ of mandamus requesting that we direct Judge Charles Graddick to vacate his order revoking Kandola's probation, to find that his probation violation was a technical violation for purposes of 15-22-54(d)(1)(f), Ala.Code 1975, 1 and to fix his term of imprisonment at no more than 90 days. In 2009, Kandola was convicted of distributing a controlled substance and was sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment. The...
On Return to Remand * WELCH, Presiding Judge. Bruce Antonio Wilkerson appeals the circuit court's denial of his Rule 32, Ala. R.Crim. P., petition for postconviction relief, in which he attacked his 2004 conviction for murder made capital because it was committed during a robbery and his resulting sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. This Court affirmed Wilkerson's conviction and sentence in an unpublished memorandum issued on May 19, 2006. Wilkerson v. State (...
WELCH, Judge. Jarvis Maurice Williams was convicted of felony murder, a violation of 13A-6-2(a)(3), Ala.Code 1975. The trial court sentenced him to life in prison. This appeal follows. On October 3, 2008, at approximately 11:40 a.m., Cory Landrum was shot and killed in the Alabama Village neighborhood in Prichard. Terry Parnell and C.D., a juvenile, were arrested shortly after the murder, and both individuals admitted their involvement, pleaded guilty, and testified at Williams's trial....
WINDOM, Judge. 1 Kim Vanpelt 2 appeals his capital-murder conviction and sentence of death. Vanpelt was convicted of capital murder pursuant to 13A-5-40-(a)(7), Ala.Code 1975, for murdering his wife, Sandra Marie Ozment Vanpelt, for pecuniary gain. By a vote of 10 to 2, the jury recommended that Vanpelt be sentenced to death. The circuit court followed the jury's recommendation and sentenced Vanpelt to death. The State's evidence tended to show that on November 24, 2004, Jerry Evans...
KELLUM, Judge. The appellant, Devane L. Hillard, appeals from the circuit court's dismissal of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. On March 22, 2001, Hillard, who at that time was an inmate housed at the Bibb Correctional Facility, petitioned the Bibb Circuit Court for a writ of habeas corpus seeking credit for time he spent in jail awaiting his trial on the charge of robbery in the first degree. In his petition, Hillard alleged that he was arrested on July 27, 2008, and that he was...
