FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NEWS ADVISORY
May 29, 2015
For More Information, contact:
Luther Strange
Mike Lewis (334) 353-2199
Joy Patterson (334) 242-7491
Alabama Attorney General
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AG ANNOUNCES THAT COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS
UPHOLDS JEFFERSON 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 Christopher
Gallant. Gallant, 37, of Montgomery, was convicted in Jefferson County Circuit Court in
February of 2014 for the murder of Ralph Woodfin.
Evidence presented at trial showed Gallant, who was in the repossession business,
drove to Birmingham with his girlfriend to repossess cars. He then sought to buy narcotics
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and drove to the Southtown area of Birmingham near 24 Street and 9 Avenue South,
where he allegedly bought drugs from Woodfin, which he discovered were fake. The
girlfriend testified that Gallant possessed a gun and that he fired several shots at Woodfin.
The victim was struck five times, twice in the back, and died of his wounds.
The case was prosecuted at trial by Jefferson County District Attorney Brandon
Falls’ office. Gallant was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole and
subsequently sought to have his conviction reversed on appeal.
The Attorney General’s Criminal Appeals Division 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, May 22.
Attorney General Strange commended Assistant Attorney General Bill Little of the
Attorney General’s Criminal Appeals Division for his successful work in this case.
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