STATE v. SAYLES


49 S.W.3d 275 (2001)

STATE of Tennessee v. Derrick SAYLES.

Supreme Court of Tennessee, at Jackson.

July 3, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul G. Summers, Attorney General and Reporter, Michael E. Moore, Solicitor General, Peter M. Coughlan, Assistant Attorney General, William L. Gibbons, District Attorney General, James Wax, Assistant District Attorney General, and Patience Branham, Assistant District Attorney General, for the appellant, State of Tennessee.

Jeffery S. Glatstein, Memphis, TN, for the appellee, Derrick Sayles.


OPINION

ADOLPHO A. BIRCH, JR., J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which E. RILEY ANDERSON, C.J., FRANK F. DROWOTA, III, JANICE M. HOLDER, and WILLIAM M. BARKER, JJ., joined.

Derrick Sayles was convicted of second degree murder. The Court of Criminal Appeals reversed the conviction and remanded the cause for a new trial on the ground that the trial court had erred in refusing to allow Sayles's counsel to probe the circumstances surrounding the bond...

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