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COOK v. STATE

80-805.

431 So.2d 1322 (1983)

Ex parte State of Alabama, ex rel. Attorney General. Re Recardo COOK v. STATE of Alabama.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

March 11, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles A. Graddick, Atty. Gen., and Ed Carnes and J. Thomas Leverette, Asst. Attys. Gen., for petitioner.

J. Louis Wilkinson, Birmingham, for respondent.

ADAMS, Justice.

The respondent in this case (Cook) stands convicted of robbery during the course of which the victim is intentionally killed, a capital offense under Code 1975, § 13-11-2(a)(2). He received a sentence of life imprisonment without parole.

We granted certiorari to consider whether the principles enunciated in Beck v. Alabama, 447 U.S. 625, 100 S.Ct. 2382, 65 L.Ed.2d 392 (1980), were applicable to the...

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