Former Montgomery police officer Aaron Cody Smith was released from an Alabama prison Thursday morning.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. - It comes nearly eight years to the day after a fateful, on-duty encounter that cost a man his life and set Smith on a multi-year court battle to stay out of prison.
This case first came to my Office on appeal in 2020. Despite my personal misgivings about the strength of the case against Mr. Smith, my Office successfully defended the conviction in accordance with our statutory duty. I then watched as the case went on to the Alabama Supreme Court and back again to the trial court late last year.
My heart also goes out to the Smith family. Mr. Smith chose an honorable career of protecting the public and his life was shattered in an instant —a reality that all law enforcement officers today live in fear of. He has paid a high price. It is time for him to go home.”“I am happy that this convicted killer finally confessed to intentionally killing Greg Gunn. If he had done that in 2016 it would have saved a lot of time and money.
Cameras were not allowed inside the courtroom where there was little emotion during the hearing. Aaron Cody Smith was calm, with his arms crossed as the judge announced the plea. When it was over, the Smith family was visibly happy while the Gunn family showed disappointment in the decision.Emotional members of Gunn’s family did not initially want to speak, but his sister ultimately did say that, “My brother loved this city. This city killed him. Justice was not served. Justice was not served.
He says his counsel also failed to call witnesses who would have contradicted the state’s law enforcement witnesses. He further alleges his counsel did not challenge the sufficiency of the evidence supporting specific intent to kill.
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