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DAVID BURROWS v. STATE OF TENNESSEE

Posted by: Karen Belcher on Feb 26, 2020

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1: Phyllis L. Aluko, District Public Defender; Harry E. Sayle III (on appeal), and Erim Sarinoglu (at hearing), Assistant Public Defenders, for the Petitioner, David Burrows.

Attorneys 2: Herbert H. Slatery III, Attorney General and Reporter; Jeffrey D. Zentner, Assistant Attorney General; Amy P. Weirich, District Attorney General; and Leslie Byrd, Assistant District Attorney General, for the Appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): MCMULLEN

The Petitioner, David Burrows, appeals from the Shelby County Criminal Court’s denial of post-conviction relief from his convictions for first degree premeditated murder, first degree felony murder, and especially aggravated kidnapping. On appeal, the Petitioner argues that trial counsel provided ineffective assistance in failing to discover his intelligence quotient (“IQ”) of 76 and in failing to seek a mental evaluation. We affirm the judgment of the post-conviction court.

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