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169 So. 3d 1076

Lane v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama

Decided November 8, 2013

Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama · decided 2013-11-08

Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently December 2015

2 state decisions

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Decided 2013-11-08

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WELCH, Judge,

¶1dissenting.

¶2I continue to adhere to my belief that Anthony Lane’s death sentence was not imposed following a correct consideration *1154of the evidence regarding mental retardation. For the reasons I set forth in my dissent to this Court’s original opinion, I believe that Lane established adaptive deficiencies in more than two skill areas of adaptive functioning and, thus, that Lane is exempt from the imposition of a death sentence. See Lane v. State, 169 So.3d 1076 (Ala.Crim.App.2013) (Welch, J., dissenting). Moreover, I continue to believe, as I asserted in my dissent, that Lane’s journal containing his drawings and rap lyrics was inadmissible evidence of Lane’s guilt, and its admission constituted reversible error. Accordingly, I respectfully dissent.

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