Legal Opinion
Edward Thomas Kendrick, III v. State of Tennessee
Tennessee Supreme Court
Decided January 16, 2015No. E2011-02367-SC-R11-PCPublishedCited by 368 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
William C. Koch, Jr., J.,
delivered the opinion of the Court,
in which Sharon G. Lee, C. J., Janice M. Holder, Cornelia A. Clark, and Gary R. Wade, JJ., joined.
This post-conviction appeal involves ineffective assistance of counsel claims made by a prisoner who fatally shot his wife. A Hamilton County jury, rejecting the prisoner’s defense that his rifle had malfunctioned and fired accidentally, convicted him of first degree premeditated murder. The Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed his conviction on direct appeal. State v. Kendricks, 947 S.W.2d 875 (Tenn.Crim.App.1996). The prisoner…
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3Cited by368 opinions
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