Legal Opinion
State v. Biggs
Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee
Decided August 25, 2006No. E2005-01402-CCA-R3-CDPublishedCited by 64 opinions
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2Opinion of the Court · TiptonJoseph M. Tipton, J.
in which GARY R. WADE, P.J., joined. THOMAS T. WOODALL, J., filed a dissenting opinion.
A Hamilton County Criminal Court jury convicted the defendant, Kevin Hunter Biggs, of one count of aggravated sexual battery, a Class B felony. The trial court sentenced the defendant to eight years in the Department of Correction to be served at one hundred percent as a child rapist.1 The defendant appeals, claiming (1) that the successor trial judge was not qualified to act as thirteenth juror; (2) that the trial court erred in failing to include attempted aggravated sexual battery as a lesser…
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- State v. BurnsTennessee Supreme Court · 1999
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