Legal Opinion
State v. Odom
Tennessee Supreme Court
Decided June 3, 1996PublishedCited by 1,446 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
BIRCH, Justice.
In this capital case, the defendant, Richard Odom, was convicted by a Shelby County jury of first-degree murder committed in the perpetration of rape.1 At the sentencing hearing, the jury found three aggravating circumstances beyond a reasonable doubt: (1) the defendant had been previously convicted of one or more violent felonies; (2) the murder was especially heinous, atrocious, or cruel; and (3) the murder was committed *21during the defendant’s escape from lawful custody or from a place of lawful confinement. Tenn. Code Ann. § 39-13-204(i)(2), (5), and (8). The jury…
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