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RICHARD E. REED v. STATE OF TENNESSEE

Posted by: Azya Thornton on Sep 19, 2025

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1: Richard E. Reed (on appeal), Mountain City, Tennessee, pro se; J. Liddell Kirk (at post- conviction hearing), Knoxville, Tennessee, for the appellant, Richard E. Reed.

Attorneys 2: Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter; Ronald L. Coleman, Senior Assistant Attorney General; Charme P. Allen, District Attorney General; and Chris Scruggs, Assistant District Attorney General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): HOLLOWAY

Petitioner, Richard E. Reed, appeals as of right from the Knox County Criminal Court’s denial of his petition for post-conviction relief, wherein he challenged convictions for possession with intent to sell 0.5 grams or more of cocaine in a drug-free school zone; possession with intent to deliver 0.5 grams or more of cocaine in a drug-free school zone; possession with intent to sell 0.5 grams or more of cocaine within a drug-free childcare zone; possession with intent to deliver 0.5 grams or more in a drug-free childcare zone; possession of a firearm during the commission of a dangerous felony; and unlawful possession of a weapon by a convicted felon, for which the trial court imposed an effective twenty-year sentence. On appeal, Petitioner asserts that he received ineffective assistance of appellate counsel for failure to include an offer-of-proof transcript in the appellate record; that the trial court erred by denying his motion to suppress; and that he was denied due process because he was not permitted to testify or call trial counsel as a witness at the post-conviction hearing. After a thorough review of the record, we affirm the judgment of the post-conviction court.

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