Legal Opinion

State v. Porterfield

Tennessee Supreme Court

Decided January 19, 1988Published

1Opinion of the Court

746 S.W.2d 441 (1988)

STATE of Tennessee, Appellee,

v.

Sidney PORTERFIELD and Gaile K. Owens, Appellants.

Supreme Court of Tennessee, at Jackson.

January 19, 1988.

Rehearing Denied February 29, 1988.

Certiorari Denied May 16, 1988.

W. Mark Ward, Asst. Shelby County Public Defender, Memphis, for Sidney Porterfield.

Brett Stein, James O. Marty, Memphis, for Gaile K. Owens.

W.J. Michael Cody, Atty. Gen. & Reporter, Norma Crippen Ballard, Asst. Atty. Gen., Nashville, for the State.

Certiorari Denied May 16, 1988. See 108 S.Ct. 1756.

OPINION

COOPER, Justice.

This is a direct appeal from the sentences of death…

2Cases cited30 opinions

  1. Bruton v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
  2. Lockett v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
  3. Wainwright v. WittSupreme Court of the United States · 1985
  4. Harrington v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
  5. McCleskey v. KempSupreme Court of the United States · 1987

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