Dennis Pylant v. State of Tennessee - Dissenting

IN THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS OF TENNESSEE AT NASHVILLE Assigned on Briefs September 20, 2006 DENNIS PYLANT v. STATE OF TENNESSEE Appeal from the Criminal Court for Cheatham County No. 13469 Robert E. Burch, Judge No. M2005-02721-CCA-R3-PC - Filed June 29, 2007 JAMES CURWOOD WITT , JR., J., dissenting. The circumstances of the present case are unusual and demand an unusually circumspect analysis of the axioms of post-conviction review. The petitioner, who is serving a life sentence for first degree murder, declined a plea offer of three years as a Range I offender for reckless homicide…