Legal Opinion
State v. Copeland
Tennessee Supreme Court
Decided May 23, 2007PublishedCited by 101 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
GARY R. WADE, J„
delivered the opinion of the court,
in which WILLIAM M. BARKER, C.J., and JANICE M. HOLDER and CORNELIA A. CLARK, JJ., joined.
The Defendant, Arthur T. Copeland, was convicted of one count of first degree murder and sentenced to death. The jury found a single aggravating circumstance, that the Defendant previously had been convicted of one or more felonies involving violence to the person, see TenmCode Ann. § 39-13-204(i)(2) (1997), and further found that the aggravating circumstance outweighed the mitigating circumstances beyond a reasonable doubt, see TenmCode Ann. §…
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