Legal Opinion
Coleman v. State
Tennessee Supreme Court
Decided April 11, 2011PublishedCited by 57 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*224OPINION
WILLIAM C. KOCH, JR., J.,
delivered the opinion of the Court,
in which CORNELIA A. CLARK, C.J., JANICE M. HOLDER, GARY R. WADE, and SHARON G. LEE, JJ„ joined.
This appeal involves the role of expert testimony in proceedings to determine whether a prisoner who has been sentenced to death is intellectually disabled and thus barred from being executed under Tenn.Code Ann. § 39-13-203 (2010). An inmate facing execution filed a motion in the Criminal Court for Shelby County to re-open his post-conviction proceedings on the ground that he was intellectually disabled at the time he committed the…
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- Ford v. WainwrightSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
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3Cited by57 opinions
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