Legal Opinion
Faulkner v. State
Tennessee Supreme Court
Decided April 27, 2007PublishedCited by 275 opinions
1Opinion of the Court 1
OPINION
2Opinion of the Court · WadeGary R. Wade, J.
in which WILLIAM M. BARKER, C.J., and JANICE M. HOLDER and CORNELIA A. CLARK, JJ., and D. MICHAEL SWINEY, Sp. J., joined.
In this case, we granted permission to appeal to determine whether a prisoner serving concurrent state and federal sentences in a federal correctional institution may attack his state convictions pursuant to a petition for writ of habeas corpus filed in this state. We hold that the petitioner, who is incarcerated in a federal correctional institution serving concurrent state and federal sentences, is not barred from challenging his state convictions by a state writ…
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- Summers v. StateTennessee Supreme Court · 2007
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