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KALPESH PATEL AND PRATIKKUMAR V. PATEL v. STATE OF TENNESSEE

Posted by: Karen Belcher on Oct 31, 2019

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1:

Worrick G. Robinson IV, Nashville, Tennessee, and Manubir S. Arora, Atlanta, Georgia, for the appellants, Kalpesh Patel and Pratikkumar Patel.

Attorneys 2:

David L. Raybin (on appeal), Nashville, Tennessee, for the appellant, Pratikkumar V. Patel.

Herbert H. Slatery III, Attorney General and Reporter; Benjamin A. Ball, Senior Assistant Attorney General; Jennings H. Jones, District Attorney General; and Sarah N. Davis, Assistant District Attorney General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): MONTGOMERY

The Petitioners, Kalpesh Patel and Pratikkumar V. Patel, appeal from the Rutherford County Circuit Court’s summary dismissal of their respective petitions for post- conviction relief from their 2015 convictions for conspiracy to commit first degree murder and solicitation to commit first degree murder, for which the Petitioners each received fifteen-year sentences. The Petitioners contend that the post-conviction court erred by summarily dismissing their petitions for relief and motions to reconsider because (1) they received the ineffective assistance of trial counsel and (2) the trial court erred by denying their respective motions to suppress cell phone evidence at the trial. We affirm the judgments of the post-conviction court.

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