Legal Opinion

State v. Zagorski

Tennessee Supreme Court

Decided November 25, 1985PublishedCited by 94 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

COOPER, Chief Justice.

The defendant, Edmund George Zagor-ski, has appealed his convictions for murder in the first degree for the killing of John Dale Dotson and Jimmy Porter, and the resulting two sentences of death. He questions the sufficiency of the convicting evidence and the evidence supporting the aggravating circumstances found by the jury, and rulings by the trial court on pretrial motions, on voir dire, on the admission of evidence, and on objections to argument by the state in the sentencing phase of the trial. Defendant also insists that the Tennessee Death Penalty Act is…

2Cases cited22 opinions

  1. Edwards v. ArizonaSupreme Court of the United States · 1981
  2. Witherspoon v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
  3. United States v. JacobsenSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
  4. Burdeau v. McDowellSupreme Court of the United States · 1921
  5. Smith v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1984

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3Cited by94 opinions

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  5. State v. HowellTennessee Supreme Court · 1993

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