Opinion Flash

March 5, 2003
Volume 9 — Number 039

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

STANLEY MILLS v. STATE OF TENNESSEE

Court:TCCA

Attorneys:

John G. McDougal, Chattanooga, Tennessee, for the appellant, Stanley
Mills.

Paul G. Summers, Attorney General and Reporter; Elizabeth B. Marney,
Assistant Attorney General; William H. Cox, III, District Attorney
General; and Rodney C. Strong, Assistant District Attorney General,
for the appellee, State of Tennessee.                          

Judge: TIPTON

First Paragraph:

The petitioner, Stanley Mills, appeals the Hamilton County Criminal
Court's denial of his petition for post-conviction relief from his
conviction for second degree murder and resulting twenty-year
sentence.  He contends that he received the ineffective assistance of
counsel because his trial attorney did not (1) prepare for trial
adequately; (2) object to the trial court's erroneous jury instruction
regarding his possible sentences; and (3) object to the trial court's
amending his judgment of conviction to reflect that he was to serve
one hundred percent of his sentence instead of thirty percent.  We
affirm the trial court's denial of the petition.

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