STATE v. BOYD


959 S.W.2d 557 (1998)

STATE of Tennessee, Appellee, v. Michael Joe BOYD, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Tennessee, at Jackson.

Rehearing Denied March 2, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul J. Morrow, Jr., Office of the Post-Conviction Defender, Nashville, Daniel A. Seward, Memphis, for Appellant.

John Knox Walkup, Attorney General and Reporter, Michael E. Moore, Solicitor General, Kathy Morante, Deputy Attorney General, Nashville, John W. Pierotti, District Attorney General (at Trial), Terry Harris, Assistant District Attorney (at Trial), Memphis, for Appellee.


OPINION

ANDERSON, Chief Justice.

The issue in this post-conviction death penalty appeal is whether the jury's reliance on an invalid aggravating circumstance was harmless error, or whether resentencing is required because there is reasonable doubt that the sentence would have been the same had the jury given no weight to the invalid aggravating factor. The jury relied on a valid aggravating factor, that the defendant had a prior conviction for a violent...

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