STATE v. SCHMEIDERER

No. M2007-01922-SC-DDT-DD.

319 S.W.3d 607 (2010)

STATE of Tennessee v. Joel Richard SCHMEIDERER.

Supreme Court of Tennessee, at Nashville.

September 14, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Claudia S. Jack , District Public Defender; Shipp Weems and Michelle VanDeRee , Assistant Public Defenders, Columbia, Tennessee, for the appellant, Joel Richard Schmeiderer.

Robert E. Cooper, Jr. , Attorney General and Reporter; Michael E. Moore , Solicitor General; James E. Gaylord , Assistant Attorney General; Joel Douglas Dicus and Patrick Butler , Assistant District Attorneys General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.


OPINION

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

In this capital case, the defendant, Joel Richard Schmeiderer, was convicted of first degree premeditated murder in connection with the strangling death of a fellow inmate. The jury imposed a sentence of death for the murder based on two aggravating circumstances. The Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed...

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