STATE v. BISHOP

No. W2010-01207-SC-R11-CD.

431 S.W.3d 22 (2014)

STATE of Tennessee v. Courtney BISHOP.

Supreme Court of Tennessee, at Jackson.

March 6, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert E. Cooper, Jr. , Attorney General and Reporter; William E. Young , Solicitor General; Jeffrey D. Zentner , Assistant Attorney General; William L. Gibbons , District Attorney General; Kevin Rardin and Stacy McEndree , Assistant District Attorneys General, for the appellant, State of Tennessee.

R. Todd Mosley (on appeal); and Robert Parris (at trial), Memphis, Tennessee, for the appellee, Courtney Bishop.


OPINION

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

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