Legal Opinion
State of Tennessee v. Detrick Cole
Tennessee Supreme Court
Decided January 20, 2005No. W2002-01254-SC-DDT-DDPublishedCited by 62 opinions
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2Opinion of the Court · IiiFrank F. Drowota Iii, C.J.
in which E. RILEY ANDERSON, JANICE M. HOLDER, and WILLIAM M. BARKER, JJ„ joined. ADOLPHO A. BIRCH, JR., filed a separate concurring-dissenting opinion.
The defendant, Detrick Cole, was convicted of first degree premeditated murder. The jury imposed a sentence of death upon finding that the prosecution had proven beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant had been previously convicted of “one (1) or more felonies, other than the present charge, whose statutory elements involve the use of violence to the person,”1 and that this aggravating circumstance outweighed mitigating…
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