Opinion Flash

May 5, 2004
Volume 10 — Number 87

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00	New Opinion(s) from the Tennessee Supreme Court
00	New Opinion(s) from the Tennessee Supreme Court Workers' Compensation Panel
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02	New Opinion(s) from the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals
02	New Opinion(s) from the Tennessee Attorney General (PDF format)
00	New Judicial Ethics Opinion(s)
00	New Formal Ethics Opinion(s) from the Board of Professional Responsibility

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

WILLIAM BERRIOS v. STATE OF TENNESSEE

Court:TCCA

Attorneys:                          

Gerald L. Gulley, Jr., Knoxville, Tennessee, for the appellant,
William Berrios.

Paul G. Summers, Attorney General and Reporter; Elizabeth B. Marney,
Assistant Attorney General; Randall E. Nichols, District Attorney
General; and Philip H. Morton, Assistant District Attorney General,
for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge: RILEY

First Paragraph:

The petitioner, William Berrios, appeals the post-conviction court's
denial of his post-conviction relief petition in relation to his
guilty plea to felony murder for which he received a life sentence. 
On appeal, the petitioner contends: (1) the state failed to satisfy a
condition of the plea agreement; and (2) his plea was unknowingly and
involuntarily entered.  We affirm the judgment of the post- conviction
court.

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

STATE OF TENNESSEE v. ROBERT DENNIS HEISINGER

Court:TCCA

Attorneys:       

Gregory D. Smith, Clarksville, Tennessee, for the appellant, Robert
Dennis Heisinger.

Paul G. Summers, Attorney General & Reporter; Thomas E. Williams, III,
Assistant Attorney General; John Carney, District Attorney General;
and C. Daniel Brollier, Assistant District Attorney General, for the
appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge: SMITH

First Paragraph:

The appellant, Robert Dennis Heisinger, was convicted by a jury of one
count of theft of property valued at $10,000 or more but less than
$60,000.  He was sentenced as a Range II offender to an eight-year
sentence in the Tennessee Department of Correction.  On appeal, he
challenges the length of his sentence and the failure of the trial
court to grant him alternative sentencing.  We affirm the judgment of
the trial court.

http://www.tba.org/tba_files/TCCA/heisingerrobert1.wpd

State Billboard Regulations

Date: April 30, 2004

Opinion Number: 04-082                         

http://www.tba.org/tba_files/AG/2004/op82.pdf

Blind Vendor Contract

Date: April 30, 2004

Opinion Number: 04-083                         

http://www.tba.org/tba_files/AG/2004/op83.pdf

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