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SHAUN ALEXANDER HODGE v. STATE OF TENNESSEE

Posted by: Tanja Trezise on Aug 14, 2023

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1: Gena Lewis, Knoxville, Tennessee, for the appellant, Shaun Alexander Hodge.

Attorneys 2: Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter; Edwin Alan Groves, Jr., Assistant Attorney General; Charme Allen, District Attorney General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): HOLLOWAY

Shaun Alexander Hodge, Petitioner, filed a petition for writ of error coram nobis (the Petition) seeking relief from his 2002 conviction for first degree premeditated murder and his life sentence. The coram nobis court summarily dismissed the Petition after finding that the Petition was not timely filed; that the Petition failed to set forth with particularity facts demonstrating that Petitioner was entitled to equitable tolling; that the evidence of a witness’s prior criminal conviction was not newly discovered; and that there was no reasonable basis to conclude that, if the claimed newly discovered evidence had been presented to the jury, the result might have been different. After a thorough review of the record and applicable law, we affirm.

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