SHEPARD, Chief Justice.
In 1997, David Michael Jones was found guilty of three misdemeanors after a bench trial in the Anderson City Court. He later filed a petition for post-conviction relief. In light of the difficulty of litigating a post-conviction claim in courts that are not courts of record and the fact that people found guilty in city court are entitled to a trial de novo simply for the asking, we conclude that post-conviction relief is not available.
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