Legal Opinion
Van Tran v. State
Tennessee Supreme Court
Decided November 23, 1999PublishedCited by 75 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
DROWOTA, Justice.
We granted the application for permission to appeal filed on behalf of petitioner Heck Van Tran in order to clarify the procedure by which a prisoner who has been sentenced to death may raise the issue of present mental competency to be executed.1 The petitioner attempted to raise this issue in a petition for relief under the Post-Conviction Procedure Act, Tenn.Code Ann. §§ 40-30-201 to -222 (1997). Both the trial court and the Court of Criminal Appeals held that a proceeding for post-conviction relief is not the appropriate avenue for litigating the issue of…
2Cases cited36 opinions
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- State v. BlandTennessee Supreme Court · 1997
- Ford v. WainwrightSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- Archer v. StateTennessee Supreme Court · 1993
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3Cited by75 opinions
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- Thompson v. BellCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 2009
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