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- Title: David Ray Duren v. State
- Author : Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama
- Release Date : January 24, 1990
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 62 KB
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The appellant, David Ray Duren, appeals the denial of his Rule 20, A.R.Crim.P.Temp., petition. In 1984, the appellant was
sentenced to death for the 1983 robbery and murder of Kathy Bedsole. We remanded appellant's case for written findings of
fact relating to the punishment phase of the trial. Duren v. State, 507 So.2d 111 (Ala. Cr. App. 1986). On return to remand,
we affirmed appellant's conviction, as did the Alabama Supreme Court. Ex parte Duren, 507 So.2d 121 (Ala. 1987). The United
States Supreme Court denied certiorari in 1987. Duren v. Alabama, 484 U.S. 905, 108 S.Ct. 249, 98 L.Ed.2d 206 (1987). Appellant
filed the current petition in 1988. The evidence established at trial that on the night of October 20, 1983, the appellant robbed and killed Kathleen Bedsole.
The appellant confessed twice to killing Miss Bedsole. The appellant and another individual approached Bedsole's car and told
her and her companion to get in the trunk of the car. While the victim and Charles Leonard were in the trunk, the appellant
and co-defendant drove to a fast food restaurant and robbed the employees of the restaurant. The appellant then drove the
car to a deserted area, took the victim and Leonard out of the trunk and shot and killed Bedsole while she and Leonard where
tied together. Four more shots were fired, three of which hit Charles Leonard. Prior to shooting Miss Bedsole, the appellant
took two $20 bills from her purse. The appellant was tried and convicted of the murder of Bedsole, which was made capital
by the fact that she was killed during a robbery.