Ex-Alabama death row inmate Montez Spradley facing federal gun charge

            Ex-Alabama death row inmate Montez Spradley, is now facing federal gun charge. It was a good thing that he was arrested, as he most probably will be using the gun to commit murder and he most probably will become another recidivist killer. His death sentence was overturned due to legal issue and not because he was factually innocent. 

  

Montez Spradley

Ex-Alabama death row inmate Montez Spradley facing federal gun charge
Updated Jun 7, 5:37 PM;

Posted Jun 7, 5:36 PM

By Howard Koplowitz | hkoplowitz@al.com

A former death row inmate who served a reduced sentence in the 2004 murder of a Mountain Brook Middle School lunchroom cashier has been indicted for illegally possessing a gun, federal prosecutors said Friday.

Montez Spradley, 36, whose capital murder conviction was reversed in 2011 after the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals found multiple errors with the case, was arrested on a charge felon in possession of a firearm following a domestic dispute in Tuscaloosa in late March, according to Jay Town, U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Alabama.

Spradley faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years in federal prison if convicted of the weapons charge because he would qualify as an armed career criminal, prosecutors said.

“Individuals with felony convictions, especially those involving violence and drugs, will answer to federal charges if they are caught with firearms,” Town said in a statement. “The U.S. Attorney’s Office appreciates the thorough investigation by the Tuscaloosa patrol officers at the scene and the ATF Task Force Officer’s quick preparation of this case for a federal charge. Criminals should be aware that every level of law enforcement is working together to get them off of the streets...and it’s working!”

Spradley had been sentenced to death by lethal injection in 2008 by former Jefferson County Circuit Judge Gloria Bahakel in the murder of 58-year-old Center Point resident Marlene Jason.

But the conviction and death sentence were unanimously overturned on appeal when the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals found Bahakel improperly allowed video and surveillance photos and hearsay testimony.

Spradley eventually pleaded guilty in 2013 to murder and intimidation of a witness in connection with the slaying of Jason and was sentenced to 10 years in prison. He was released in 2015 despite the 10-year sentence because of jail and prison time credit.

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https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/news/former-alabama-death-row-inmate-freed-on-evidence-of-innocence-glad-to-be-alive