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EX PARTE HODGES

1010619.

856 So.2d 936 (2003)

Ex parte Melvin G. HODGES. (In re Melvin Gene Hodges v. State of Alabama).

Supreme Court of Alabama.

March 14, 2003.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Floyd Likins, Jr., Opelika, for petitioner.

William H. Pryor, Jr., atty. gen., and Anne C. Adams and A. Vernon Barnett IV, asst. attys. gen., for respondent.

Bryan A. Stevenson, Angela L. Setzer, and Charlotte R. Morrison, Montgomery, for amicus curiae Equal Justice Initiative of Alabama, in support of the petitioner.

LYONS, Justice.

Melvin G. Hodges was convicted in June 1999 of murder made capital because the murder was committed during the course of a robbery in the first degree. See § 13A-5-40(a)(2), Ala.Code 1975. Hodges and others robbed a Golden Corral Restaurant in Opelika on January 4, 1998. After the robbery, Elizabeth "Beth" Seaton, a supervisor at the restaurant, was taken from the restaurant at gunpoint and later was beaten and run over by a vehicle. She died...

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