Legal Opinion
Dellinger v. State
Tennessee Supreme Court
Decided January 22, 2009No. E2005-01485-SC-R11-PDPublishedCited by 570 opinions
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2Opinion of the Court · HolderJanice M. Holder, C.J.
in which WILLIAM M. BARKER, CORNELIA A. CLARK, GARY R. WADE, and WILLIAM C. KOCH, JR., JJ., joined.
We granted this appeal to decide an issue of first impression: whether a freestanding claim of actual innocence is cognizable in an initial petition for post-conviction relief under the Tennessee Post-Conviction Procedure Act, Tennessee Code Annotated sections 40-30-101 through-122. We have also chosen to discuss the petitioner’s ineffective assistance of counsel claims and the burden of proof for prevailing on such claims. In 2003, the petitioner filed a petition for post-conviction…
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