Legal Opinion

State v. Coley

Tennessee Supreme Court

Decided October 13, 2000No. M1997-00116-SC-R11-CDPublishedCited by 51 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

BIRCH, J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which DROWOTA, and BARKER, JJ., joined.

This appeal arises from the trial court’s exclusion of expert testimony concerning eyewitness identification sought to be offered by the defendant in his trial for aggravated robbery. At trial, Eddie L. Coley, Jr., the defendant, sought to introduce expert testimony concerning eyewitness identification; at the State’s objection, the trial court refused to admit the testimony. Coley appealed to the Court of Criminal Appeals. The intermediate court affirmed his conviction and sentence. Appealing to…

2Cases cited44 opinions

  1. Chambers v. MississippiSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
  2. State v. BallardTennessee Supreme Court · 1993
  3. United States v. Melvin TelfaireCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1972
  4. State v. ShirleyTennessee Supreme Court · 1999
  5. United States v. Michael G. Thevis, Alton Bart Hood, Global Industries, Inc., Anna Jeanette EvansCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1982

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3Cited by51 opinions

  1. State v. ScottTennessee Supreme Court · 2000
  2. State v. McKinneyTennessee Supreme Court · 2002
  3. State v. CopelandTennessee Supreme Court · 2007
  4. Bomas v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 2010
  5. State v. MosleyCourt of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee · 2005

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