Sample v. State

OPINION

ADOLPHO A. BIRCH, JR., and JANICE M. HOLDER, JJ., joined.

We granted review in this post-conviction capital ease to address two issues: (1) whether the trial court properly ruled that the petitioner’s claim that the prosecution suppressed exculpatory evidence was barred by the statute of limitations; and (2) whether the trial court properly determined that the jury’s reliance on the felony murder aggravating circumstance in imposing a death sentence for the offense of felony murder in violation of article I, § 16 of the Tennessee Constitution was harmless error beyond a reasonable…