Legal Opinion

State v. Jones

Tennessee Supreme Court

Decided April 2, 1990PublishedCited by 91 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

O’BRIEN, Justice.

James Lee Jones was convicted in the Davidson County Criminal Court on a three count indictment charging him with first degree murder, assault with intent to commit first degree murder with bodily injury, and armed robbery. He received a death sentence on the murder charge and life sentences on each of the other convictions with the sentences to be served consecutively to the sentence for murder and consecutively to each other.

The defendant has raised several issues which are broken down into a number of sub-issues. The first of these issues raised relates to the…

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2Cases cited44 opinions

  1. Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
  2. Batson v. KentuckySupreme Court of the United States · 1986
  3. Witherspoon v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
  4. Wainwright v. WittSupreme Court of the United States · 1985
  5. Swain v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1965

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3Cited by91 opinions

  1. State v. BlandTennessee Supreme Court · 1997
  2. State v. HarrisTennessee Supreme Court · 1992
  3. State v. CarruthersTennessee Supreme Court · 2000
  4. State v. RiceTennessee Supreme Court · 2006
  5. State v. BigbeeTennessee Supreme Court · 1994

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