Legal Opinion
Harold Tolley v. Attorney General of Tennessee
Court of Appeals of Tennessee
Decided October 29, 2012No. M2012-00551-COA-R3-CVPublishedCited by 2 opinions
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2Opinion of the Court · StaffordJ. Steven Stafford, J.
in which ALAN E. HIGHERS, P.J., W.S., and DAVID R. FARMER, J., joined.
Appellant inmate filed a petition for Declaratory Judgment in the Davidson County Chancery Court, arguing that Tennessee Code Annotated Section 40-35-501(i) is unconstitutional as applied to life sentences with the possibility of parole. The Appellee Department of Correction filed a motion to dismiss, arguing that the Appellant’s failure to seek a Declaratory Order from the Department of Correction constituted the failure to exhaust administrative remedies. The trial court granted the motion to dismiss. Discerning no…
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