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SMITH v. STATE

No. E2007-00719-SC-R11-PD.

357 S.W.3d 322 (2011)

Leonard Edward SMITH v. STATE of Tennessee.

Supreme Court of Tennessee, at Knoxville.

December 19, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert E. Cooper, Jr. , Attorney General and Reporter; Gordon W. Smith , Associate Solicitor General; John H. Bledsoe , Senior Counsel; H. Greeley Wells, Jr. , District Attorney General, Barry P. Staubus , Deputy District Attorney, for the Appellant, State of Tennessee.

Paul J. Morrow, Jr. , Deputy Post-Conviction Defender, and Kelly A. Gleason , Assistant Post-Conviction Defender, Nashville, Tennessee, for the Appellee, Leonard Edward Smith.

OPINION

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

In this post-conviction appeal Petitioner Leonard Edward Smith challenges his 1985 conviction and life sentence for the first degree felony murder of John Pierce, his 1989 conviction for the first degree felony murder of Novella Webb, and his 1995 death sentence for the Webb murder. We affirm...

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