Harold Wayne Nichols v. State of Tennessee

10/10/2019 IN THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS OF TENNESSEE AT KNOXVILLE March 26, 2019 Session HAROLD WAYNE NICHOLS v. STATE OF TENNESSEE Appeal from the Criminal Court for Hamilton County No. 205863 Don R. Ash, Senior Judge ___________________________________ No. E2018-00626-CCA-R3-PD ___________________________________ Petitioner, Harold Wayne Nichols, pled guilty to first degree murder in 1990. A jury imposed the death penalty. In June of 2016, Petitioner moved to reopen his post- conviction petition on the basis that the Supreme Court’s decision in Johnson v. United States, __ U.S. __,

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