Legal Opinion
State v. Morris
Tennessee Supreme Court
Decided July 10, 2000No. W1998-00679-SC-DDT-DDPublishedCited by 189 opinions
1Opinion of the Court 1
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2Opinion of the Court · AndersonAnderson, C. J.
in which BIRCH, HOLDER and BARKER, J.J., joined.
A jury convicted the defendant of two counts of premeditated first degree murder and one count of aggravated rape. The jury imposed the death penalty for one of the first degree murders after finding that evidence of two aggravating circumstances — that the murder was especially heinous, atrocious or cruel in that it involved torture or serious physical abuse beyond that necessary to produce death and that the murder was committed in the course of a first degree murder, rape, burglary or kidnapping — outweighed mitigating evidence beyond…
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