Greer v. State

DICKSON, Justice.

In this appeal the defendant, William L. Greer, challenges the post-appeal transfer of a habitual offender enhancement from a vacated conviction to the remaining conviction.

In 1988, the defendant was convicted of Attempted Murder and Class A Robbery, found to be a habitual offender, sentenced to fifty years for the Robbery conviction and, with the habitual offender enhancement included, eighty years for Attempted Murder. In 1994, in his first direct appeal, this Court reversed the conviction for Attempted Murder, finding that the jury was not properly instructed regarding the…