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GRIFFIN v. CITY OF KNOXVILLE

821 S.W.2d 921 (1991)

Chuck GRIFFIN and Knoxville Journal Corp., Plaintiffs/Appellants, v. CITY OF KNOXVILLE, Defendant/Appellee, Carole S. Miller, Intervening Complainant/Appellee. Donald K. BAGWELL, Plaintiff, v. CITY OF KNOXVILLE, Defendant, Carole S. Miller, Intervening Complainant.

Supreme Court of Tennessee, at Knoxville.

Rehearing Denied December 30, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. Louis Crossley, Jr., Knoxville, for plaintiffs/appellants.

Robert S. Stone, Knoxville, for plaintiff, Donald K. Bagwell.

K. Dickson Grissom, Knoxville, for defendant/appellee, City of Knoxville.

Herbert S. Moncier, Ann C. Short, Knoxville, for appellee, Carole S. Miller.

OPINION

ANDERSON, Justice.

We granted the plaintiffs' application in order to determine whether deceased's handwritten notes, confiscated at the death scene by a municipal police department in the course of a homicide investigation, are public records available for inspection by the public under Tenn. Code Ann. § 10-7-503 of the Public Records Act. The plaintiff newspaper and television station manager brought this action against the municipality seeking...

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