Legal Opinion
Hopkins v. Tennessee Board of Paroles & Probation
Court of Appeals of Tennessee
Decided April 26, 2001PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court 1
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2Opinion of the Court · KochKoch, J.
in which CAIN and COTTRELL, JJ., joined.
This appeal involves a prisoner’s efforts to be paroled from his sentence for aggravated rape. After the Tennessee Board of Paroles declined for the sixth time to parole him, the prisoner filed a petition for common-law writ of certiorari in the Chancery Court challenging the Board’s latest decision and the procedure used to reach it. The trial court dismissed the petition for failure to state a claim upon which relief could be granted, and the prisoner has appealed. We affirm the trial court’s decision.
Larry W. Hopkins was convicted of…
3Cases cited9 opinions
- Powell v. Parole Eligibility Review BoardCourt of Appeals of Tennessee · 1994
- Arnold v. Tennessee Board of ParolesTennessee Supreme Court · 1997
- Turner v. Tennessee Board of ParolesCourt of Appeals of Tennessee · 1999
- Graham v. StateTennessee Supreme Court · 1957
- Robinson v. TraughberCourt of Appeals of Tennessee · 1999
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4Cited by31 opinions
- Terrance Lavar Davis v. State of TennesseeTennessee Supreme Court · 2010
- Joseph Brennan v. Board of Parole For The State of TennesseeTennessee Supreme Court · 2017
- Donald F. Long v.Tennessee Board of Probation and ParoleCourt of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee · 2004
- William W. York v. Tennessee Board Of ParoleCourt of Appeals of Tennessee · 2016
- Alvin Seagroves v. State of Tennessee and Tennessee Board of Probation & ParoleCourt of Appeals of Tennessee · 2010
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