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STATE v. RIELS

216 S.W.3d 737 (2007)

STATE of Tennessee v. James RIELS.

Supreme Court of Tennessee, at Jackson.

March 1, 2007.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tony N. Brayton, Garland Erguden, and Robert Wilson Jones (on appeal) and Larry Nance and LaTonya Burrow (at trial), Memphis, Tennessee, for the appellant, James Riels.

Paul G. Summers, Attorney General and Reporter; Michael E. Moore, Solicitor General; and Michelle Chapman McIntire, Assistant Attorney General, William L. Gibbons, District Attorney General; and Gerald Harris and Michele Parks, Assistant District Attorneys General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

OPINION

WILLIAM M. BARKER, C.J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which JANICE M. HOLDER, CORNELIA A. CLARK, and GARY R. WADE, JJ., and D. MICHAEL SWINEY, Sp.J., joined.

The defendant, James Riels, pled guilty to two counts of premeditated murder and two counts of felony murder for the murders of Mary Jane Cruchon and Franchion Pollack.1 He also entered guilty pleas to one count of especially aggravated robbery, one count...

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