QUADDARIONTAE BURNOM v. STATE OF TENNESSEE - Articles

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Posted by: Azya Thornton on May 9, 2025

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1: M. Todd Ridley (on appeal), Assistant Public Defender—Appellate Division; Sean Day, District Public Defender; and Patrick R. McGill, Assistant District Public Defender, for the appellant, Quaddariontae Burnom.

Attorneys 2: Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter; J. Katie Neff, Assistant Attorney General; Danny Goodman, Jr., District Attorney General; and Lance E. Webb, Assistant District Attorney General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): HOLLOWAY

Petitioner, Quaddariontae Burnom, appeals the denial of his petition seeking post- conviction relief from his 2022 guilty-pleaded conviction for second degree murder, for which he is serving an agreed twenty-five-year sentence. On appeal, Petitioner contends that he received ineffective assistance of trial counsel because counsel failed to adequately explain to him the significance of our supreme court’s decision in State v. Booker, 656 S.W.3d 49 (Tenn. 2022), before he entered his plea. After a thorough review of the record and applicable law, we affirm the judgment of the post-conviction court.

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