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COLEMEN v. STATE

No. W2007-02767-SC-R11-PD.

341 S.W.3d 221 (2011)

Michael Angelo COLEMAN v. STATE of Tennessee.

Supreme Court of Tennessee, at Jackson.

April 11, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael J. Passino and Kelley Henry , Nashville, Tennessee; William D. Massey , Memphis, Tennessee, for the appellant, Michael Angelo Coleman.

Robert E. Cooper, Jr. , Attorney General and Reporter; Gordon W. Smith , Associate Solicitor General; James E. Gaylord , Assistant Attorney General; William Gibbons , District Attorney General; and John Campbell and Scott Bearup , Assistant District Attorneys General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

James W. Ellis , Albuquerque, New Mexico; Jodie Ann Bell , Nashville, Tennessee, for the Amicus Curiae, American Association of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and the Arc of the United States and the Arc of Tennessee.

Wade V. Davies , Knoxville, Tennessee, for the Amicus Curiae, Tennessee Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.

OPINION

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

This appeal involves the role of expert testimony in proceedings to determine whether a prisoner who has been sentenced to death is intellectually disabled and thus barred from being executed under Tenn.Code Ann. § 39-13-203 (2010). An...

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