Samuel Welch, former presiding judge of the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals who retired this year, has been tabbed by the Alabama Supreme Court to oversee the murder trial of Aaron Cody Smith, the Montgomery officer who shot and killed Greg Gunn while on duty in February 2016.   Here, Welch talks during the 38th annual Red Mass for the State of Alabama on Monday, Oct. 3, 2011, at St. Peter Catholic Church in Montgomery, Ala. (Montgomery Advertiser, Lloyd Gallman)
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