AL Political Reporter: “A former Montgomery Police officer who was convicted of manslaughter in the shooting death of an unarmed Black man remains out of prison despite the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals twice denying the former officer’s appeal.
Aaron Cody Smith, who was convicted in January 2020 of the 2016 shooting of Greg Gunn, has managed to serve less than two months of a 14-year prison sentence, despite originally being arrested March 2, 2016 and sentenced to prison in January 2020.
Last week, the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals denied Smith’s most recent appeals request, which was nothing more than a request by Smith for the court to reconsider its original rejection of his appeal last May. It took the court nearly a year to make that decision.
Immediately following that decision, as he did last May, Montgomery District Attorney Daryl Bailey filed a motion with the court to have Smith’s appeal bond revoked. Whether that action will be taken, though, is unclear.”