Darrell Lamar Fritts v. State of Tennessee

IN THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS OF TENNESSEE AT NASHVILLE Assigned on Briefs August 14, 2002 DARRELL LAMAR FRITTS v. STATE OF TENNESSEE Direct Appeal from the Criminal Court for Davidson County No. 3180 Seth Norman, Judge No. M2001-03126-CCA-R3-CO - Filed February 26, 2003 The petitioner, Darrell Lamar Fritts, filed in the Davidson County Criminal Court a petition for habeas corpus relief, alleging that the plea bargain process employed by the State of Tennessee is unconstitutional per se, thus rendering two of his convictions, which resulted from guilty pleas, void. The trial court denied…