Legal Opinion
David Keen v. State of Tennessee
Tennessee Supreme Court
Decided December 20, 2012No. W2011-00789-SC-R11-PDPublished
1Opinion of the Court
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF TENNESSEE AT JACKSON May 31, 2012 Session Heard at Lipscomb University1 DAVID KEEN v. STATE OF TENNESSEE Appeal by Permission from the Court of Criminal Appeals Criminal Court for Shelby County No. P25157 Chris Craft, Judge No. W2011-00789-SC-R11-PD - Filed December 20, 2012 This appeal involves a prisoner who was sentenced to death in 1991. Nineteen years later, he filed a petition in the Criminal Court for Shelby County seeking to reopen his post- conviction proceeding on the ground that he possessed new scientific evidence of his actual innocence. His evidence…
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