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Howard H. Vogel
Knoxville, Tennessee
Editor-in-Chief, TBALink

STATE OF TENNESSEE v. THOMAS L. CONDRA

Court:TCCA

Attorneys:

Jerry B. Bible, Jasper, Tennessee, for the defendant, Thomas L.
Condra.

Paul G. Summers, Attorney General and Reporter; Elizabeth T. Ryan,
Assistant Attorney General; James Michael Taylor, District Attorney
General; and Steven H. Strain, Assistant District Attorney General,
for the appellee, State of Tennessee.                            

Judge: WILLIAMS

First Paragraph:

The Defendant, who was charged with vehicular homicide and failure to
yield right of way, filed a petition for writ of certiorari to review
district attorney's denial of pretrial diversion.  The trial court
found that district attorney general did not abuse his discretion in
denying pretrial diversion.  We affirm the judgment of the trial
court.

http://www.tba.org/tba_files/TCCA/condrat.wpd

Bank Ownership of Title Insurance Companies

Date: February 1, 2002

Opinion Number: 02-013                         

http://www.tba.org/tba_files/AG/OP13.pdf

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