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E1999-00235-C0A-R3-CV

E1999-00235-C0A-R3-CV

Originating Judge:Thomas W. Graham
Rhea County Court of Appeals 05/14/94
Joe L. Utley vs. State

M1999-00560-CCA-MR3-PC
Authoring Judge: Judge Thomas T. Woodall
Originating Judge:Seth W. Norman
Davidson County Court of Criminal Appeals 05/12/94
State vs. Ronald Crafton

W2001-00320-CCA-R3-CO
The petitioner appeals the trial court's dismissal of his petition for habeas corpus relief. The trial court determined that the allegations contained in the petitioner's pro se petition were not ones that would entitle him to habeas corpus relief, and therefore dismissed his petition. After a careful review of the record, we affirm the trial court's dismissal of the petition.
Authoring Judge: Judge Alan E. Glenn
Originating Judge:Joseph H. Walker, III
Lauderdale County Court of Criminal Appeals 04/26/94
David Cross vs. James Dukes

W2000-02197-CCA-R3-CO
Petitioner appeals the summary dismissal of his petition for writ of habeas corpus. The trial court determined that petitioner did not receive an illegal sentence, and petitioner now appeals this ruling. We affirm the judgment of the trial court.
Authoring Judge: Judge Joe G. Riley
Originating Judge:Joseph H. Walker, III
Lauderdale County Court of Criminal Appeals 04/12/94
Adkins vs. Keck

03A01-9804-CV-00141
Court of Appeals 03/17/94
Terrence Liddle vs. Ricky Bell, Warden

01C01-9709-CR-00395
Davidson County Court of Criminal Appeals 03/15/94
Andre Bland v. State of Tennessee

W2007-00020-CCA-R3-PD
Authoring Judge: Judge John Everett Williams
Originating Judge:W. Fred Axley
Shelby County Court of Criminal Appeals 02/12/94
Dexter Frank Johnson vs. State

E2004-01260-CCA-R3-HC
The petitioner, Dexter Frank Johnson, appeals the dismissal of his petition for writ of habeas corpus. The state has filed a motion requesting that this court affirm the action of the trial court pursuant to Rule 20, Tenn. Ct. Crim. App. R. The petition fails to present a cognizable claim for habeas corpus relief. Accordingly, the state's motion is granted and the judgment of the trial court is affirmed.
Authoring Judge: Judge Norma McGee Ogle
Originating Judge:Stephen M. Bevil
Hamilton County Court of Criminal Appeals 02/11/94
03A01-9506-CV-00205

03A01-9506-CV-00205

Originating Judge:Inman
Court of Appeals 01/28/94
Johnny McGowan, Jr. vs. State

M2003-01759-CCA-R3-HC
The Petitioner, Johnny L. McGowan, Jr., pled guilty in 1994 to aggravated arson, arson, six counts of reckless endangerment with a deadly weapon and two counts of vandalism, and the trial court sentenced him to twenty years in prison, to be served concurrently with a sentence from a previous conviction. In 2003, the Petitioner filed two pro se petitions for writs of habeas corpus in case numbers 27902 and 27903 alleging that his guilty pleas were not entered knowingly and voluntarily and requesting that the trial court appoint him counsel. The trial court summarily dismissed the petitions because it found that the Petitioner's claims, considered in the light most favorable to him, would at best render his convictions voidable and not void. On appeal, the Petitioner contends that the trial court erred by denying his request for appointment of counsel and by dismissing his petitions because there were "fatal variances" between the indictments and the evidence contained in the record. Finding no reversible error, we affirm the trial court's judgments.
Authoring Judge: Judge Robert W. Wedemeyer
Originating Judge:Don Ash
Rutherford County Court of Criminal Appeals 01/24/94
Arthur Kerr vs. Christina Kerr

M2000-01730-COA-R3-CV
The trial court granted the parties a divorce, divided the marital property, and ordered child support, but not alimony. On appeal, the wife argues that the trial court erred in its division of marital property and in its failure to award her rehabilitative alimony. We affirm the trial court.
Authoring Judge: Judge Ben H. Cantrell
Originating Judge:Carol A. Catalano
Robertson County Court of Appeals 12/27/93
In re: The Adoption of female child, E.N.R.

01A01-9806-CH-00316
Court of Appeals 12/21/93
Rhodney Roberson v. State of Tennessee

W2003-01236-CCA-R3-PC
Authoring Judge: Presiding Judge Joseph M. Tipton
Originating Judge:Joseph H. Walker, III
Gibson County Court of Criminal Appeals 11/19/93
Paris vs. The City of Lebanon Personnel Review Bd.

01A01-9702-CH-00054
Court of Appeals 10/12/93
Jacqueline Fields vs. Vincent Fifer

02A01-9804-JV-00118
Shelby County Court of Appeals 08/18/93
Clinton Lien v. Nashville and Davidson County

M2002-00721-COA-R3-CV
Chief Emmett H. Turner, of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County Police Department, discharged Appellant from employment as a police officer for certain violations of various rules and regulations. The officer appealed his discharge and, after a hearing, the Administrative Law Judge reduced his penalty to a thirty day suspension. The appeal was further heard before the Civil Service Commission, which reversed the ALJ and upheld the dismissal of the officer. The Chancery Court of Davidson County upheld the action of the Civil Service Commission. The officer appeals, and we affirm the judgment of the trial court.
Authoring Judge: Judge William B. Cain
Originating Judge:Walter C. Kurtz
Davidson County Court of Appeals 08/16/93
01A01-9503-Ch-00117

01A01-9503-Ch-00117
Cheatham County Court of Appeals 07/15/93
Mark L. Grimes v. Fred Rainey, Warden

W2002-01583-CCA-R3-CO
Authoring Judge: Judge Jerry Smith
Originating Judge:R. Lee Moore Jr.
Lake County Court of Criminal Appeals 07/14/93
Supreme Court'S Recent Opinion In Hicks v. State, 945 S.W.2D 706 (Tenn. 1997), We Find

01-9801-CC-00027
Court of Criminal Appeals 05/28/93
Burress vs. Sanders

M1999-00210-COA-R3-CV
Authoring Judge: Presiding Judge Herschel P. Franks
Originating Judge:Thomas W. Graham
Sequatchie County Court of Appeals 05/16/93
Gregory Scott Spooner vs. State

E2004-02160-CCA-R3-HC
The petitioner, Gregory Scott Spooner, appeals from the trial court's order dismissing his petition for writ of habeas corpus. The state has filed a motion requesting that this court affirm the trial court's denial of relief pursuant to Rule 20 of the Rules of the Court of Criminal Appeals. The petition fails to establish a cognizable claim for habeas corpus relief. Accordingly, the state's motion is granted and the judgment of the trial court is affirmed.
Authoring Judge: Judge J. Curwood Witt, Jr.
Originating Judge:James E. Beckner
Hancock County Court of Criminal Appeals 04/28/93
Melissa Kornblee (Jaramillo) vs. Kevin Richard Kornblee

M2000-00379-COA-R3-CV
In this post-divorce proceeding, Melissa Danise Foster Kornblee (Jaramillo) appeals the trial court's actions in ordering mental health counseling and treatment of the parties' minor children by a court appointed professional, declining to allow her to relocate with the minor children to Wyoming, allowing Father unsupervised visitation with the children, and awarding Father attorney's fees in defending her motion to suspend unsupervised visitation. We affirm the trial court.
Authoring Judge: Judge William B. Cain
Originating Judge:Thomas E. Gray
Sumner County Court of Appeals 03/26/93
01C01-9707-CC-00315

01C01-9707-CC-00315
Williamson County Court of Criminal Appeals 03/23/93
Metro Construction Co., Inc. vs. Cogun Industries, Inc.

02A01-9608-CH-00207

Originating Judge:C. Neal Small
Shelby County Court of Appeals 01/28/93
In Re: Estate of George C. Vincent

E2001-03035-SC-R11-CV
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.
Authoring Judge: Justice Frank F. Drowota, III
Originating Judge:Billy Joe White
Campbell County Supreme Court 01/22/93