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Posted by: Chandra Williams on Oct 15, 2015

Petitioner, Tony C. Woods, filed a petition for writ of error coram nobis on December 17, 2013, seeking a new trial of the offenses for which he was convicted in 1989: first degree murder, armed robbery, and possession of an illegal firearm, a sawed-off shotgun.

Posted by: Chandra Williams on Oct 15, 2015

The Appellant, Albert Taylor, appeals as of right from the Shelby County Criminal Court’s summary denial of his Tennessee Rule of Criminal Procedure 36.1 motion to correct an illegal sentence. On appeal, the Appellant argues that the trial court erred (1) by determining that, because his sentences had expired, he was not entitled to a motion hearing and (2) by treating his motion as a petition for habeas corpus relief. The State concedes that the trial court erred.

Posted by: Chandra Williams on Oct 15, 2015

Aggrieved of his Shelby County Criminal Court jury conviction of theft of property valued at $1,000 or more but less than $10,000, the defendant, Walter Shegog, appeals, claiming that the trial court was without jurisdiction to impose his conviction because the offense occurred on federal property, that the trial court erred by refusing to dismiss the indictment based upon the State’s destruction of certain evidence, and that the trial court erred by permitting the State to use all of the defendant’s prior convictions as impeachment evidence.

Posted by: Chandra Williams on Oct 15, 2015

The Defendant, Michael Lindsey, filed a Motion to Correct an Illegal Sentence pursuant to Rule 36.1 of the Tennessee Rules of Criminal Procedure. The trial court summarily dismissed the motion for failing to state a colorable claim. Discerning no error, we affirm the judgment of the trial court.

Posted by: Chandra Williams on Oct 15, 2015

Miqwon Leach, the Defendant, filed pro se a Motion for Correct of an Illegal Sentence pursuant to Tennessee Rule of Criminal Procedure 36.1. The trial court found the motion failed to state a colorable claim and summarily dismissed the motion. We affirm.

Posted by: Chandra Williams on Oct 15, 2015

Husband filed a Tenn. R. Civ. P. 60.02 motion to set aside an agreed upon Final Decree of Divorce. He claims the agreed order was the result of a mutual mistake concerning one of his military benefits and that he lacked the mental capacity to understand the agreement. The parties married in 1989. Husband retired from the military in 2009 with 100% disability. Wife filed for divorce in 2012. Over the course of several months, the parties negotiated an agreement as to the division of all of their marital property.

Posted by: Chandra Williams on Oct 15, 2015

Honey Bunch (“Plaintiff”) filed suit seeking partition by sale of a parcel of real property located in Anderson County, Tennessee. B.F. Bunch (“Defendant”) filed a counterclaim alleging, in pertinent part, that a quit claim deed of a portion of the property was void for lack of capacity, undue influence, or fraud, and that the property at issue should be partitioned in kind. After a trial, the Chancery Court for Anderson County (“the Trial Court”) found and held, inter alia, that the quit claim deed was valid and that the remaining property should be partitioned by sale.

Posted by: Chandra Williams on Oct 15, 2015

A former police officer with the City of Cleveland brought this retaliatory discharge action, alleging that he was fired for reporting his superior for the crime of official misconduct and official oppression. During the pendency of the retaliatory discharge action, the officer’s termination was upheld in the administrative appeal process. A panel of this court affirmed the administrative decision.

Posted by: Chandra Williams on Oct 14, 2015

The defendant, Kenneth Lebron Wynn, appeals the denial of his Rule 36.1 motion to correct an illegal sentence. He argues that the dates of his offenses indicate that he improperly received concurrent sentencing. Following our review, we conclude that the defendant has not stated a colorable claim for relief. We affirm the judgment of the trial court.

Posted by: Chandra Williams on Oct 14, 2015

The defendant, Theodore Lebron Johnson, appeals his Davidson County Criminal Court jury conviction of aggravated robbery, claiming that the evidence is insufficient to support the conviction and that the trial court erred by declining to instruct the jury regarding the loss or destruction of evidence. We discern no flaw in the conviction and affirm the trial court’s judgment.


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