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STATE v. TURNER

No. W2007-00891-SC-R11-CD.

352 S.W.3d 425 (2011)

STATE of Tennessee v. Alfred TURNER.

Supreme Court of Tennessee, at Jackson.

October 12, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert E. Cooper, Jr. , Attorney General and Reporter; Gordon W. Smith , Associate Solicitor General; and Rachel E. Willis , Assistant Attorney General, for the appellant, State of Tennessee.

Lance Randall Chism (on appeal) and Gerald Skahan and Juni Ganguli (at trial), Memphis, Tennessee, for the appellee, Alfred Turner.

Emily Campbell Taube and James Bennett Fox Jr. , Memphis, Tennessee, for the amicus curiae, Katherine Klyce.

OPINION

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

The defendant was indicted for a murder that occurred nearly ten years prior to his arrest. The defendant's theory of the case implicated two other men as the individuals responsible for the murder. These men previously had been tried and acquitted of the murder. Over the objection of...

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