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PETITION OF GANT

937 S.W.2d 842 (1996)

Petition of Attorney Isaiah S. GANT, for review as under the common law writ of certiorari. In re HOURLY COMPENSATION RATE OF COURT APPOINTED COUNSEL in the death penalty case of State of TN v. Courtney Mathews, Montgomery County No. 33791.

Supreme Court of Tennessee, at Nashville.

September 16, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William P. Redick, Jr., Whites Creek, for Petitioner.

Charles W. Burson, Attorney General and Reporter, Kathy Morante, Deputy Attorney General, Nashville, for Respondent.

OPINION

BIRCH, Chief Justice.

Isaiah S. Gant, appointed counsel in a capital case, petitions this Court for review of the refusal of the Director of the Administrative Office of the Courts to compensate him at a rate higher than that established in Rule 13, Rules of the Supreme Court of Tennessee. Because we find that the Director, in rejecting Gant's claim, neither exceeded his jurisdiction nor acted illegally, arbitrarily, or fraudulently, we affirm the...

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