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BURCH v. TENNESSEE DEPT. OF CORRECTION

994 S.W.2d 137 (1999)

Roy A. BURCH, Petitioner/Appellant, v. TENNESSEE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION, Respondent/Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Tennessee, Middle Section, at Nashville.

Permission to Appeal Denied June 21, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roy A. Burch, Mountain City, Pro Se/Petitioner/Appellant.

John Knox Walkup, Attorney General and Reporter, Patricia C. Kussmann, Assistant Attorney General, Nashville, for Respondent/Appellee.

Permission to Appeal Denied by Supreme Court June 21, 1999.

OPINION

CANTRELL, Presiding Judge, Middle Section.

An inmate sentenced to life imprisonment as a Class X habitual offender filed a petition for declaratory judgment. He claimed that he was entitled to have his sentence recalculated under a more lenient statute that was enacted after he was sentenced. The trial court dismissed the petition...

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