Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama August 31, 2007, CR-05-2414 (Johnson v. State)

The appellant, Xavier Mohandas Johnson, appeals from the circuit court's denial of his petition for postconviction relief, filed pursuant to Rule 32, Ala.R.Crim.P., in which he attacked his June 2005 guilty-plea conviction for murder and his resulting sentence as an habitual felony offender with one prior felony conviction to 50 years' imprisonment. No direct appeal was taken from this conviction.