THOMAS v. STATE

No. E2007-02298-CCA-R3-PC

298 S.W.3d 610 (2009)

Howard Walter THOMAS v. STATE of Tennessee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee, at Knoxville.

February 12, 2009.

Application for Permission to Appeal Denied by Supreme Court August 17, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Thomas Dillard and Steven Ross Johnson, Knoxville, Tennessee, for the appellant, Howard Walter Thomas.1

Robert E. Cooper, Jr., Attorney General and Reporter; John H. Bledsoe, Assistant Attorney General; Randall E. Nichols, District Attorney General; and Leland Price, Assistant District Attorney General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.


OPINION

JAMES CURWOOD WITT, JR., J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which THOMAS T. WOODALL and ROBERT W. WEDEMEYER, JJ., joined.

The petitioner, Howard Walter Thomas, appeals the denial of his petition for post-conviction relief. In this appeal, he alleges that the trial court's reliance on the ruling in State v. Coley, 32 S.W.3d 831 (Tenn. 2000), to prohibit the introduction of expert testimony regarding...

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