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THIGPEN v. STATE

3 Div. 997.

374 So.2d 401 (1979)

Donald THIGPEN v. STATE.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama.

As Corrected on Denial of Rehearing July 17, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. Diana Hicks, Mobile, Jack Greenberg, James M. Nabrit, III, John C. Boger, New York City, Anthony G. Amsterdam, Stanford, Cal., for appellant.

Charles A. Graddick, Atty. Gen. and Mary Jane LeCroy, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State, appellee.

BOWEN, Judge.

This appeal from the denial of a petition for writ of coram nobis represents an effort by Donald Thigpen to avoid his sentence of death. Thigpen was originally convicted and sentenced to death in May of 1972 for the shotgun slaying of Cassie Lee Davis. On appeal of that conviction the sentence was reduced to life imprisonment pursuant to Furman v. Georgia, 408 U.S. 238, 92 S.Ct. 2726, 33 L.Ed.2d 346 (1972). Thigpen...

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