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State of Tennessee v. James Hawkins

Tennessee Supreme Court

Decided May 1, 2017No. W2012-00412-SC-DDT-DDPublishedCited by 58 opinions

1Opinion of the Court 1

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2Opinion of the Court · ClarkCornelia A. Clark, J.

in which Jeffrey S. Bivins, C.J., and Holly Kirby, and Roger A. Page, JJ., joined. Sharon G. Lee, J., filed a concurring opinion.

A jury convicted the defendant of the premeditated first degree murder of his girlfriend, who was the mother of his three children. Tenn. Code Ann. § 39-13-202(a)(1) (2014). The jury also found the defendant guilty of initiating a false report concerning her disappearance and of abuse of her corpse, based on his sawing off her head, hands, and feet and throwing the remainder of her body over a bridge in Mississippi. See Tenn. Code Ann. § 39-16-502 (2014); id.…

3Cases cited104 opinions

  1. Miranda v. ArizonaSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
  2. Terry v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
  3. Chapman v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
  4. Wong Sun v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
  5. Mapp v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1961

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4Cited by58 opinions

  1. State of Tennessee v. Sedrick ClaytonTennessee Supreme Court · 2017
  2. State of Tennessee v. Janet Michelle Stanfield, Tony Alan Winsett and Justin Bradley StanfieldTennessee Supreme Court · 2018
  3. State v. McElrathTennessee Supreme Court · 2019
  4. Carlos Gonzalez v. State of TennesseeCourt of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee · 2026
  5. Clay Stuart Gregory v. State of TennesseeCourt of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee · 2025

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