State Supreme Court rejects Amy Bishop’s request to review conviction in 2010 UAH shooting
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) — The Supreme Court of Alabama denied convicted murderer Amy Bishop Anderson’s request to review her appeal on Friday.
A Court of Criminal Appeals previously denied Bishop Anderson’s attempt to appeal her conviction. In response to that ruling, she filed a petition for a review of the appeal by the state’s supreme court in June.
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Alabama Chief Justice Tom Parker along with Justices Brady Mendheim Jr., Greg Shaw, Tommy Bryan and Jay Mitchell concurred on the decision to deny her petition.
Bishop Anderson pleaded guilty to the shooting of six people in the Shelby Center on the Univeristy of Alabama Huntsville Campus back in February of 2010. She entered that guilty plea on September 11, 2012.
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Despite the guilty plea, later that month Bishop Anderson still had to stand trial, because Alabama law requires the state to prove its case in any capital murder situation.
After less than 30 minutes of deliberations, a jury found Bishop Anderson guilty of capital murder and sentenced her to life in prison without parole on Monday, September 24, 2012. Judge Alan Mann then sentenced her to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Bishop Anderson exhausted her appeals in August 2013, but filed a Rule 32 petition in July 2014 challenging her conviction. She claimed she should be relieved from her conviction because her plea was involuntary, evidence favorable to her case was withheld by the prosecution, her attorneys were ineffective, she did not receive an adequate psychiatric evaluation and new evidence has been discovered.
In October 2014, that petition was denied by a Madison County circuit judge who ruled her claims were without merit.
Bishop Anderson is serving out her life sentence at Tutwiler Prison in Wetumpka.
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