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JOHNSON v. STATE

No. W2010-01800-CCA-R3-CO.

370 S.W.3d 694 (2011)

Erskine Leroy JOHNSON v. STATE of Tennessee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee, at Jackson.

December 9, 2011.

Application for Permission to Appeal Denied by Supreme Court April 11, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerald D. Skahan , Memphis, Tennessee, and Jonathan I. Blackman , David E. Brodsky , Carmine D. Boccuzzi, Jr. , David H. Herrington , and Elizabeth Vicens , New York, New York, for the appellant, Erskine Leroy Johnson.

Robert E. Cooper, Jr. , Attorney General and Reporter; J. Ross Dyer , Senior Counsel; Amy P. Weirich , District Attorney General; and Glen Baity , Assistant District Attorney General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

OPINION

JOSEPH M. TIPTON, P.J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which THOMAS T. WOODALL and NORMA McGEE OGLE, JJ., joined.

The Petitioner, Erskine Leroy Johnson, appeals the Shelby County Criminal Court's dismissal of his petition for error coram nobis relief from his 1985 conviction for felony murder. He contends that newly discovered evidence entitles him to a new trial. He also contends that the trial court improperly weighed the newly discovered...

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