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FRENCH v. STATE

824 S.W.2d 161 (1992)

George FRENCH, Appellant, v. STATE of Tennessee, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Tennessee, at Nashville.

January 13, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michele D. Collins, Woods & Venick, Nashville, for appellant.

Charles W. Burson, Atty. Gen. & Reporter, Bettye Springfield-Carter, James W. Milam, Asst. Attys. Gen., Nashville, for appellee.

OPINION

O'BRIEN, Justice.

The single determinative issue for review on this appeal of a denial of post-conviction relief concerns whether a convicted defendant who flees the jurisdiction and is later recaptured waives all rights to solicit post-conviction relief.

In 1982 petitioner, George French, along with two other males, was arrested and charged with the armed robbery of a Nashville couple at their...

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