Murray Lawrence v. Alabama

Whether the prosecution violated Brady v Maryland when it suppressed exculpatory forensic evidence concealed the absence of any Alabama autopsy and falsely implied the existence of a later autopsy that supported a gunshot theory which contradicted its own medical examiner.

Whether racial discrimination in jury selection violated Batson v Kentucky when the prosecution struck nearly every African American juror leaving a single African American juror on a twelve person panel.

Whether due process was violated under Napue v Illinois and Giglio v United States when the State relied on coerced and incentivized testimony from witnesses who were threatened with death penalty exposure criminal charges loss of children or immunity manipulation.

Whether the conviction is unsupported by evidence under Jackson v Virginia where no physical evidence tied Petitioner to the crime and the only forensic autopsy proved strangulation in Mississippi rather than gunshot in Alabama.

Whether Petitioner was denied effective assistance of counsel under Strickland v Washington when counsel failed to investigate failed to call alibi witnesses failed to challenge the gunshot theory and failed to object to Batson violations.

Whether prosecutorial misconduct including theory shifting inflammatory arguments racialized insinuations and misrepresentation of forensic findings violated due process under Berger v United States and Darden v Wainwright.

Whether Alabama's Rule 32 process failed to provide meaningful review in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment when the petition was dismissed without discovery without a hearing and without addressing jurisdiction Brady violations or coerced testimony. Murray Lawrence Jr AIS 00241380 Date: // ~"XC