Ex parte Willie Edward Williams PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS (In re: Willie Edward Williams v. State of Alabama) (Montgomery Circuit Court: CC-04-1423.61; Criminal Appeals: CR-2024-0436).

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• concluding that ORS 161.067(1) required the verdicts for first-degree robbery and attempted aggravated felony murder to merge because there was “no element of the robbery count that would not have [been] proved in the felony murder count”
• disavowing “footnotes two and four of Barrett” and explaining that the “predicate felonies of felony murder are not alternative ways to prove ‘aggravation’ for aggravated felony murder. Accordingly, Barrett does not support holding that ORS 161.067(1) prevents merger of the two counts.”
• guilty verdicts for robbery and attempted aggra- vated felony murder had to merge, where the robbery was the predicate offense for the attempted aggravated felony murder
• ORS 161.067(1), “properly interpreted and applied,” “required merger of peti- tioner’s guilty verdicts on first-degree robbery and attempted aggravated felony murder.”
• “In short, the requirement is met, and the offenses will not merge, only if each statutory offense at issue has a unique element not in common with the other offenses.”
• defendant shot the victim while attempting to steal the victim’s wallet and car

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