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STATE v. JOHNSON

No. E2010-00172-SC-DDT-DD

401 S.W.3d 1 (2013)

STATE of Tennessee v. Nickolus L. JOHNSON.

Supreme Court of Tennessee, at Knoxville.

April 19, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Thomas Bowman , Johnson City, Tennessee, and Stacy L. Street , Elizabethton, Tennessee, for the appellant, Nickolus L. Johnson.

Robert E. Cooper, Jr. , Attorney General and Reporter; Deshea Dulany Faughn , Assistant Attorney General; H. Greeley Wells , District Attorney General; and Barry P. Staubus , Assistant District Attorney General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

OPINION

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

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