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STATE OF TENNESSEE v. NICHOLAS GRASSIA

Posted by: Karen Belcher on Apr 13, 2021

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1: J. Liddell Kirk, Knoxville, Tennessee, for the appellant, Nicholas Grassia.

Attorneys 2: Herbert H. Slatery III, Attorney General and Reporter; Garrett D. Ward, Assistant Attorney General; Charme P. Allen, District Attorney General; and TaKisha Fitzgerald, Assistant District Attorney General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): WITT

The defendant, Nicholas Grassia, appeals the trial court’s denial of his motion, filed pursuant to Tennessee Rule of Criminal Procedure 32, to withdraw his guilty pleas to charges of aggravated kidnapping and unlawful possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, arguing that the pleas were the product of the ineffective assistance of counsel. Because the defendant failed to establish manifest injustice requiring that he be allowed to withdraw his pleas, we affirm the judgment of the trial court.

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