STATE v. FRANKLIN

No. W2007-02772-SC-R11-CD.

308 S.W.3d 799 (2010)

STATE of Tennessee v. Darrell FRANKLIN.

Supreme Court of Tennessee, at Jackson.

April 29, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert E. Cooper, Jr., Attorney General and Reporter; Michael E. Moore, Solicitor General; Matthew Bryant Haskell, Assistant Attorney General; John H. Bledsoe, Senior Counsel; William L. Gibbons, District Attorney General; and Pamela D. Fleming, Assistant District Attorney General, for the appellant, State of Tennessee.

Robert Jones, Shelby County Public Defender; Phyllis Aluko (on appeal) and Lawrence R. White (at trial), Assistant Public Defenders, Memphis, Tennessee, for the appellee, Darrell Franklin.


OPINION

CORNELIA A. CLARK, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which JANICE M. HOLDER, C.J., and GARY R. WADE, WILLIAM C. KOCH, JR., and SHARON G. LEE, JJ., joined.

We granted this appeal to determine whether the admission into evidence of an automobile license tag number observed and written down by a bystander near the crime scene who did not appear at trial violated the defendant's right to confrontation under the federal and state constitutions...

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