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- Title: Ford Motor Co. v. Rice
- Author : Supreme Court of Alabama
- Release Date : January 04, 1998
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 59 KB
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Charles Randall Stewart was convicted on six counts of capital murder, all based on the death of his ex-wife Betty Sue Lang. Four of these counts had been elevated to capital murder because the murder was committed during the course of a burglary, and the other two counts had been made capital because the murder was also committed during the course of a kidnapping. The trial court accepted the jurys recommendation and sentenced Stewart to death. On appeal, the Court of Criminal Appeals reversed Stewarts convictions and sentence and remanded the cause so that the trial court could vacate three of the capital-murder counts based on the burglary and one count based on the kidnapping. Stewart v. State, 601 So.2d 491 (Ala.Crim.App. 1992). On remand, the trial court vacated those four counts of capital murder, accordingly. On return to remand, the Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed Stewarts convictions and sentence. Stewart v. State, 659 So.2d 120 (Ala.Crim.App. 1992). This Court subsequently affirmed the convictions, but reversed the sentence because of an improper jury instruction. Ex parte Stewart, 659 So.2d 122 (Ala. 1993). The trial court held a second sentencing hearing, which again resulted in a death sentence for Stewart. The Court of Criminal Appeals, on March 22, 1996, reversed this second sentence because the trial court had failed to properly instruct the jury on the means of weighing the aggravating and mitigating circumstances, and it remanded for a third sentencing hearing. Stewart v. State, [Ms. CR-90-0415, March 22, 1996] So.2d (Ala.Crim.App. 1996).