Legal Opinion
State v. Leach
Tennessee Supreme Court
Decided September 8, 2004No. M2001-01421-SC-DDT-DDPublishedCited by 249 opinions
1Opinion of the Court 1
OPINION
2Opinion of the Court · HolderJanice M. Holder, J.
in which FRANK F. DROWOTA, III, C.J., and E. RILEY ANDERSON, and WILLIAM M. BARKER, JJ. joined.
In this capital case, the defendant, Robert L. Leach, Jr., was convicted of two counts of first degree premeditated murder, two counts of first degree felony murder, one count of especially aggravated robbery, and one count of aggravated rape. The trial court merged the felony murder convictions with the premeditated murder convictions. The jury imposed sentences of death for the two murder convictions. The trial court imposed two consecutive *47sentences of twenty-five years for the especially…
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