The Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals held that district courts lack authority to conduct stand-your-ground immunity hearings on felony charges and denied mandamus relief.
The Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals held that multiple recent controlled buys supported a residential search warrant and that officers also acted in objective good faith.
The Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed the conviction. Its lengthy opinion rejected Brown’s asserted errors after reviewing the circumstances of the operation, the shooting, the proof of Brown’s knowledge and intent, and the trial court’s challenged rulings. The court concluded that none of the preserved issues required reversal and found no plain error adversely affecting Brown’s substantial rights.
The Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed the capital-murder and first-degree-assault convictions and their sentences. It concluded, however, that the conviction for discharging a firearm into an occupied vehicle violated double-jeopardy principles because the proven act underlying that offense was also used to establish the charged form of capital murder.