FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NEWS RELEASE
July 6, 2016
For More Information, contact:
Luther Strange
Mike Lewis (334) 353-2199
Alabama Attorney General
Joy Patterson (334) 242-7491
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AG STRANGE ANNOUNCES THAT COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS UPHOLDS
MONTGOMERY COUNTY CAPITAL MURDER CONVICTION
(MONTGOMERY) – Attorney General Luther Strange announced that the Alabama
Court of Criminal Appeals last Friday upheld the capital murder conviction of Enrico
Morris Cornley. Cornley, 29, of Montgomery, was convicted in Montgomery County
Circuit Court in August of 2015 for the murder of Roy Buskey.
Evidence presented at trial showed that at approximately 2 a.m. on November 26,
2013, Cornley drove his girlfriend to the home of her ex-boyfriend, Roy Buskey, to retrieve
her cellular telephone. An encounter ensued between Cornley and Buskey, resulting in
Cornley shooting Buskey in the chest, killing him.
The case was prosecuted at trial by Montgomery County District Attorney Daryl
Bailey’s office. Cornley was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of
parole. Cornley subsequently sought to have his conviction reversed on appeal.
The Attorney General’s Criminal Appeals Section handled the case during the
appeals process, arguing for the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals to affirm the
conviction. The Court did so in a decision issued on Friday, July 1.
Attorney General Strange commended Assistant Attorney General Jean Webb of the
Attorney General’s Criminal Appeals Section for her successful work in this case.
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