STATE v. BLYE


130 S.W.3d 776 (2004)

STATE of Tennessee v. Allen Prentice BLYE.

Supreme Court of Tennessee, at Knoxville.

February 25, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth F. Irvine, Jr., and Julie A. Rice, Knoxville, Tennessee (on appeal); Terry Jordan, Assistant Public Defender, Blountville, Tennessee (at trial and on appeal); and Mark Toohey, Kingsport, Tennessee (at trial), for the appellant, Allen Prentice Blye.

Paul G. Summers, Attorney General and Reporter; Michael E. Moore, Solicitor General; Mark A. Fulks, Assistant Attorney General; H. Greeley Wells, Jr., District Attorney General; and Joseph E. Perrin, Assistant District Attorney General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.


OPINION

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

We granted permission to appeal in this case to consider whether the Sixth Amendment entitles the defendant to participate, through counsel, in the determination of the existence of probable cause for the issuance of a warrant to seize a sample of the defendant's blood. Because...

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