STATE v. ADAMS

No. W2009-01492-SC-R11-CD

405 S.W.3d 641 (2013)

STATE of Tennessee v. Prince ADAMS.

Supreme Court of Tennessee, at Nashville.

May 16, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brett B. Stein (at trial and on appeal) and Larry Diamond (at trial), Memphis, Tennessee, for the appellant, Prince Adams.

Robert E. Cooper, Jr. , Attorney General and Reporter; William E. Young , Solicitor General; Cameron L. Hyder , Assistant Attorney General; Rachel E. Willis , Senior Counsel; William L. Gibbons , District Attorney General; and Patience Branham and David Zak , Assistant District Attorneys General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.


OPINION

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

The defendant was convicted of first degree premeditated murder and received a life sentence. In his appeal to the Court of Criminal Appeals, he alleged that the evidence was insufficient to support his conviction; that a discharged alternate juror improperly communicated with the jury foreman...

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