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ALABAMA COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS

OCTOBER TERM, 2011-2012

CR-08-1583

Willie B. Smith III
v.
State of Alabama
Appeal from Jefferson Circuit Court
(CC-92-1289.60)

BURKE, Judge.

Willie B. Smith, III appeals the circuit court's denial
of his Rule 32, Ala. R. Crim. P., petition for postconviction
relief challenging his May 7, 1992, conviction of two counts
of capital murder and the resulting sentence of death.  Smith

was convicted of the intentional murder of Sharma Ruth Johnson
during a kidnapping,

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