Legal Opinion
Archer v. State
Tennessee Supreme Court
Decided March 22, 1993PublishedCited by 1,276 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
DAUGHTREY, Justice.
We granted permission to appeal in this ease to determine whether challenges to the voluntariness of guilty pleas may properly be advanced in state habeas corpus proceedings. Our examination of the history of the writ of habeas corpus in Tennessee leads us to the conclusion that the reach of the Great Writ is severely restricted in this state and would, in almost all instances, preclude consideration of challenges to the voluntariness of guilty pleas in such proceedings. We thus affirm the judgment of the Court of Criminal Appeals.
The appellant, Mark D. Archer, is…
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