Title: Ex Parte Mack III

State: alabama

Issuer: Alabama Supreme Court

Document:

736 So. 2d 681 (1999)
Ex parte Albert MACK III.
(Re Albert Mack III v. State).
No. 1971587.

Supreme Court of Alabama.
March 12, 1999.
Rehearing Denied May 21, 1999.
Scott Donaldson, Tuscaloosa, for appellant.
Bill Pryor, atty. gen., and Michael B. Billingsley, asst. atty. gen., for appellee.
PER CURIAM.
A jury convicted Albert Mack III of the offense of murder during the course of a robbery, made capital by § 13A-5-40(a)(2), Ala.Code 1975. The jury, by a vote of ten to two, recommended that Mack be punished by death. The trial court accepted the jury's recommendation and sentenced Mack to death. The Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed Mack's conviction and sentence. Mack v. State, 736 So. 2d 664 (Ala.Crim.App.1998). This Court granted certiorari review and heard the matter on oral argument. We affirm.
The facts of the case, as stated by the Court of Criminal Appeals, are as follows:
736 So. 2d  at 666. The Court of Criminal Appeals wrote:
736 So. 2d  at 666.
Mack raises in his certiorari petition the same seven issues he raised before the Court of Criminal Appeals. The opinion of the Court of Criminal Appeals provides a thorough treatment of the facts of this case and of each issue raised by Mack in his petition.
Because this case involves the death penalty, this Court is obliged under Rule 45A, Ala. R.App. P., to review the record for any "error that has or probably has adversely affected the substantial right" of the defendant:
Ex parte Jackson, 672 So. 2d 810, 811 (Ala. 1995), cert. denied, 517 U.S. 1247, 116 S. Ct. 2505, 135 L. Ed. 2d 195 (1996). We have reviewed the proceedings for plain error and have found none.
As required by Ala.Code 1975, § 13A-5-53, we have "review[ed] the propriety of the death sentence" in this case. This review convinces us 1) that the sentence imposed upon Mack was not "imposed under the influence of passion, prejudice, or any other arbitrary factor"; 2) that "an independent weighing of the aggravating and mitigating circumstances at the appellate level indicates that death was the proper sentence"; and 3) that Mack's sentence of death is not "excessive or disproportionate to the penalty imposed in similar cases, considering both the crime and the defendant." § 13A-5-53(b)(1), (2), and (3). See Ex parte Brooks, 695 So. 2d 184 (Ala.1997), cert. denied, ___ U.S. ___, 118 S. Ct. 233, 139 L. Ed. 2d 164 (1997).
Having considered the record, together with the petition and the briefs and arguments of counsel, this Court concludes that the judgment of the Court of Criminal Appeals must be affirmed. Ex parte Jackson, 672 So. 2d 810, 811 (Ala.1995), cert. denied, 517 U.S. 1247, 116 S. Ct. 2505, 135 L. Ed. 2d 195 (1996); Ex parte Coral, 628 So. 2d 1004 (Ala.1993), cert. denied, 511 U.S. 1012, 114 S. Ct. 1387, 128 L. Ed. 2d 61 (1994).
AFFIRMED.
HOOPER, C.J., and MADDOX, HOUSTON, KENNEDY, COOK, SEE, LYONS, and JOHNSTONE, JJ., concur.
BROWN, J., recuses herself.