Rigger v. State

OPINION

JAMES CURWOOD WITT, JR., J„

delivered the opinion of the Court,

in which NORMA McGEE OGLE and CAMILLE R. McMULLEN, JJ., joined.

The petitioner, Patrick Joseph Rigger, appeals from the Knox County Criminal Court’s denial of post-conviction relief from his general sessions court guilty-pleaded convictions of misdemeanor evading arrest and misdemeanor possession of a weapon. Although the post-conviction court determined that the Knox County General Sessions Court’s procedure of communicating to defendants en masse the litany of constitutional rights prior to accepting pleas of guilty did not…