How do judges of the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals / Joined 2011 / Active

Liles C. Burke

Judge, Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals

Liles C. Burke is a Judge of the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals, serving since 2011. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2011 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2011	Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals	–	–

Education

The University of Alabama
The University of Alabama

Judicial Record

In our data, Burke authored 124 published opinions for the court (2011–2018), plus 11 dissents and 8 concurrences. Most cited: Boyle v. State (22 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 138 of these were attributed to Burke by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
2013	Boyle v. State†	154 So. 3d 171	22
2014	Wiggins v. State†	193 So. 3d 765	20
2013	Lane v. State†	169 So. 3d 1076	17
2011	Thompson v. State†	97 So. 3d 800	17
2011	Ankrom v. State†	152 So. 3d 373	16
2016	Ex parte State· Concurrence†	223 So. 3d 954	13
2014	Davis v. State†	184 So. 3d 415	13
2014	Carruth v. State†	165 So. 3d 627	12
2012	Smith v. State†	112 So. 3d 1108	12
2015	Bohannon v. State†	222 So. 3d 457	11
2012	Kidd v. State†	105 So. 3d 1261	11
2012	Cochran v. State†	111 So. 3d 148	10
2011	Michael Craft v. State of Alabama.†	90 So. 3d 197	10
2013	Bailey v. City of Ragland· Concurrence†	136 So. 3d 498	9
2013	Petric v. State†	157 So. 3d 176	9

Showing the 15 most-cited of 143 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court is Liles C. Burke on?: Liles C. Burke is a Judge of the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals.

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15 years on the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).