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STATE v. PIERCE

23 S.W.3d 289 (2000)

STATE of Tennessee v. Lon Mitchell PIERCE, Jr.

Supreme Court of Tennessee, at Knoxville.

June 22, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald E. Spurrell and James S. Roach, Johnson City, Tennessee, for the appellant, Lon Mitchell Pierce, Jr.

Paul G. Summers, Attorney General & Reporter, Michael E. Moore, Solicitor General, Marvin E. Clements, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, H. Greeley Wells, District Attorney General, and Teresa Murray Smith, Assistant District Attorney General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

OPINION

DROWOTA, J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which ANDERSON, C.J., BIRCH, HOLDER and BARKER, JJ. joined.

The appellant, Lon Mitchell Pierce, Jr., was fleeing from law enforcement officials in a van that another person had stolen in Florida twenty days earlier when the stolen van he was driving collided with a Sullivan County deputy's patrol car. The deputy died almost immediately from injuries he sustained in the collision. As a result of...

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