Learn all about the new Bankruptcy Act in TennBarU's 8-part TeleSeminar Series This special series of 1.25-hour teleseminars will provide a detailed, practice-level examination of the new Bankruptcy Act and its changes to existing law. Choose the course or courses you need for your practice, with topics tackling both consumer and businesses issues. https://www.tba.org/onsiteinfo/teleseminars/bankruptcy_05.html    TODAY'S OPINIONS: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 Following this index are summaries of each case, including its name, first paragraph, author's name, and the names of attorneys for the parties of each opinion. 00 - TN Supreme Court 00 - TN Worker's Comp Appeals 00 - TN Supreme Court - Rules 00 - TN Court of Appeals 01 - TN Court of Criminal Appeals 00 - TN Attorney General Opinions 00 - Judicial Ethics Opinions 00 - Formal Ethics Opinions - BPR TBA members can get the full-text versions of these opinions three ways detailed below. All methods require a TBA username and password. If you have forgotten your password or need to obtain a password, you can look it up on-line at http://www.tba.org/getpassword.mgi Here's how you can obtain full-text version. We recommend you download the Opinions to your computer and then open them from there. Click the URL at end of each Opinion paragraph below. This should give you the option to download the original document. If not, you may need to right-click on the URL to get the option to save the file to your computer. Do a key word search in the Search Link area of TBALink. This option will allow you to view and save a plain-text version of the opinion. Browse the Opinion List area of TBALink. This option will allow you to download the original version of the opinion. Howard H. Vogel Knoxville, Tennessee Editor-in-Chief, TBALink STATE OF TENNESSEE v. JEFFREY HOPKINS Court: TCCA Attorneys: Gary F. Antrican, District Public Defender; and David S. Stockton, Assistant Public Defender,for the Appellant, Jeffrey Hopkins. Paul G. Summers, Attorney General & Reporter; Seth P. Kestner, Assistant Attorney General;Elizabeth T. Rice, District Attorney General; and Walter Freeland and Colin Campbell, Assistant District Attorneys General, for the Appellee, State of Tennessee. Judge: WITT The defendant, Jeffery Allen Hopkins, appeals his Tipton County convictions of first degreefelony murder and especially aggravated robbery, arising from the December 20, 2003 shooting death of Ricky Lumpkin. The defendant received a sentence of life imprisonment with thepossibility of parole for the felony murder conviction and 20 years for the especially aggravated robbery conviction. On appeal, the defendant contests the sufficiency of the evidence to supportthese convictions. Unpersuaded that the stateâs evidence was legally insufficient, we affirm the trial courtâs judgments. http://www.tba.org/tba_files/TCCA/2005/hopkinsj92705.pdf   PLEASE FORWARD THIS E-MAIL! Feel free to forward this Opinion Flash on to anyone you know of with an e-mail address. GET A FULL-TEXT COPY OF AN OPINION! See the instructions at the beginning of this edition of Opinion Flash. JOIN THE TENNESSEE BAR ASSOCIATION! While Opinion Flash is a free service of the Tennessee Bar Association, you must be a member of the Tennessee Bar Association in order to access the full text of the opinions or enjoy the many other features of TBALink. To join the TBA go to: http://www.tba.org/join_bar.mgi SUBSCRIBE TO OPINION FLASH! Would you like to receive the TBALink Opinion Flash free each day by e-mail? Anyone, whether a TBA member or not, is welcome to subscribe ... it's free! Sign up for text or HTML version. Visit the TBALink web site at: http://www.tba.org/op-flash.mgi UNSUBSCRIBE TO OPINION FLASH? ... SURELY NOT! But if you must, visit the TBALink web site at: http://www.tba.org/op-flash.mgi TBALink Home • Contact Us • PageFinder • What's New • Help © Copyright 2005 Tennessee Bar Association