PER CURIAM.
The petitioner, Roy Edward Perkins, filed this petition for a writ of mandamus directing Judge William Scott Donaldson to grant his request for discovery relating to Perkins's postconviction petition attacking his capital-murder conviction and sentence of death.
In 1994 Perkins was convicted of murdering Cathy Gilliam during the course of a kidnapping — an offense defined as capital by § 13A-5-40(a)(1), Ala.Code 1975. The jury, by a...
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