DARRELL KENNEDY v. STATE OF TENNESSEE - Articles

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Posted by: Amelia Ferrell Knisely on Feb 10, 2016

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1:

Lance R. Chism (on appeal) and Eugene Belenitsky (at post-conviction hearing), Memphis, Tennessee, for the Appellant, Darrell Kennedy.

Attorneys 2:

Herbert H. Slatery III, Attorney General and Reporter; Jeffrey D. Zentner, Assistant Attorney General; Amy P. Weirich, District Attorney General; and Anita Spinetta, Assistant District Attorney General, for the Appellee, State of Tennessee.

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Petitioner, Darrell Kennedy, was convicted of one count of aggravated rape and two counts of theft of property, for which he received an effective sentence of forty-one years in confinement. He filed a request pursuant to The Post-Conviction DNA Analysis Act of 2001 seeking retesting of various swabs that were analyzed in 1993. The post- conviction court denied relief, and this appeal follows. Upon review, we affirm the judgment of the post-conviction court.