SUPREME COURT OPINIONS

03S01-9410-CR-00094
03S01-9410-CR-00094

03S01-9410-CR-00094
03S01-9410-CR-00094
Trial Court Judge: W. Lee Asbury

State of Tennessee v. Gregory Adams Valentine
02S01-9410-CC-00070
Authoring Judge: Justice Aldolpho A. Birch, Jr.
Trial Court Judge: Judge Julian P. Guinn

Gregory Adams Valentine was convicted by a jury of unlawful possessoin of a Schedule VI Substance with intent to manufacture, deliever, or sell (a Class E felony) and unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia (a Class A misdemeanor). We granted his application for review pursuant to Rule 11, Tenn. R. Crim. P., in order to determine whether his testimony fulfilled the requirements of Rule 41 (g), Tenn.R.Crim.P., thereby preserving his right to challenge, on appeal, the admission of illegally obtain evidence.

01S01-9403-CH-00026
01S01-9403-CH-00026
Trial Court Judge: Irvin H. Kilcrease, Jr.

01S01-9502-FD-00024
01S01-9502-FD-00024

02S01-9407-CR-00044
02S01-9407-CR-00044

02S01-9407-CR-00044
02S01-9407-CR-00044

01S01-9408-CH-00076
01S01-9408-CH-00076

State of Tennessee v. David Edward Howington
01S01-9407-CC-00073
Authoring Judge: Justice Adolpho A. Birch, Jr.
Trial Court Judge: Judge John A. Gasaway

The district attorney general refused to honor an informal immunity agreement1 made with David Edward Howington, the defendant. The reason stated for this refusal was the prosecutor's perception that Howington had not fulfilled his part of the bargain; that is, he had not testified truthfully at his preliminary hearing. He was subsequently tried and convicted of first-degree (felony) murder; he received a life sentence.

03S01-9407-CR-00069
03S01-9407-CR-00069

Charlotte v. Broyles
01S01-9501-CV-00014

01S01-9502-CV-00021
01S01-9502-CV-00021

03S01-9409-CR-00089
03S01-9409-CR-00089
Trial Court Judge: Douglas A. Meyer

Nancy M. Cronin v. John W. Howe, M.D.
03S01-9406-CV-00053
Authoring Judge: Chief Justice Riley Anderson
Trial Court Judge: Judge Wheeler Rosenbalm

The issue in this appeal is whether the Tennessee savings statute1operates to save a medical malpractice action which was initially filed within the three-year statute of repose, but which was voluntarily dismissed and refiled beyond the three-year statute of repose.2 We hold that it does. The judgment of the Court of Appeals is reversed and the cause remanded to the trial court.

02S01-9406-CH-00027
02S01-9406-CH-00027

03S01-9401-CR-00095
03S01-9401-CR-00095

03S01-9407-CH-00067
03S01-9407-CH-00067
Trial Court Judge: Earl H. Henley

03S01-9502-CR-00011
03S01-9502-CR-00011

03S01-9401-CR-00095
03S01-9401-CR-00095
Trial Court Judge: Mary Beth Leibowitz

State of Tennessee v. Jerrell C. Livingston, State of Tennessee v. Steve Bundy, State of Tennessee v. John R. Tilley, & State of Tennessee v. David Johnson
01S01-9305-CR-00077
Authoring Judge: Special Justice Charles H. O'Brien
Trial Court Judge: Judge J. Randall Wyatt

We accepted the application for review filed pursuant to Rule 11, Tenn. R. App.P. In these four cases in order to determine whether the fresh-complaint doctrine recently modified in State v. Kendricks 1 applies in cases wherein a child is the victim of abuse. For the reasons below appearing, we hold that the fresh-complaint doctrine does not apply in such cases.

State of Tennessee v. Anthony Darrell Dugard Hines
01S01-9303-CC-00052
Authoring Judge: Special Justice Charles H. O'Brien
Trial Court Judge: Judge Robert E. Burch

This defendant was convicted of murder in the perpetration of armed robbery and sentenced to death. On direct appeal this Court affirmed defendant's conviction and remanded the case for resentencing because of erroneous jury instructions.

State of Tennessee v. Anthony Darrell Dugard Hines
01S01-9303-CC-00052
Authoring Judge: Special Justice Charles H. O'Brien
Trial Court Judge: Judge Robert E. Burch

This defendant was convicted of murder in the perpetration of armed robbery and sentenced to death. On direct appeal this Court affirmed defendant's conviction and remanded the case for resentencing because of erroneous jury instructions.1

Misty Atchley v. Lifecare Center of Cleveland
03S01-9312-CH-00077
Authoring Judge: Justice Frank W. Drowota, III
Trial Court Judge: Chancellor Earl H. Henley

We granted review of the Special Workers' Compensation Appeals Panel decision pursuant to Tenn. Code Ann. § 50-6-225(e)(5)(A), in order to determine, inter alia, whether the provisions contained in Tenn. Code Ann. § 50- 6-241(a)(1) [the multiplier statute], limiting an employee's permanent partial disability award to two and one-half (2½) times the medical impairment rating in cases in which the pre-injury employer returns the employee to employment at awage equal to or greater than the wage the employee was receiving at the time of the injury, apply to injuries involving scheduled members

01S01-9409-CV-00111
01S01-9409-CV-00111
Trial Court Judge: Thomas Goodall

In Re: Estate of George C. Vincent
E2001-03035-SC-R11-CV
Authoring Judge: Justice Frank F. Drowota, III
Trial Court Judge: Billy Joe White
In this will construction case, we address the question of whether or not the doctrine of exoneration applies to a mortgage on real property passing by right of survivorship where the decedent's will directed that his personal representative pay all his "just debts." We find that the general direction to pay "just debts" is not sufficient to require that the estate pay the remaining balance on the mortgage of non-probate property. Furthermore, additional language in the will regarding the payment of installment debts is not sufficient to indicate that the testator intended to include mortgages of non-probate property where the testator's will specified only one beneficiary and did not mention either the property held by joint tenancy or the joint tenant.