Legal Opinion
Shell v. State
Tennessee Supreme Court
Decided January 17, 1995PublishedCited by 50 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
DROWOTA, Justice.
Paul Shell, Betty Stimpson and Jeff Stimp-son appeal from the Court of Appeals’ affir-mance of the dismissal by the Tennessee Claims Commission of them action against the State of Tennessee for negligent deprivation of a constitutional right. The appellants’ lawsuit is based on alleged prosecutorial misconduct in the investigation of reports of child sexual abuse in a day care center; this investigation ultimately led to the indictment and prosecution of the appellants for multiple sexual offenses. This appeal presents two issues for our review: (1) whether the…
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