Antonio M. Crockett v. State of Tennessee

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The Petitioner, Antonio M. Crockett, appeals from the denial of his petition for post-conviction relief, wherein he challenged his jury conviction for first-degree felony murder. On appeal, the Petitioner alleges the following grounds of ineffective assistance of trial counsel: (1) failure to impeach a witness (2) failure to assert a proper basis for severance pretrial or renew the motion to sever at trial (3) failure to request a jury instruction (4) failure to object to the State's articulating multiple theories during its closing argument (5) failure to object to the prosecutor's inflammatory comments during the State's rebuttal argument (6) failure to develop and present evidence of the disproportionality of a mandatory life sentence. The Petitioner also argues that his mandatory life sentence is unconstitutional and that he was deprived of a fair trial on the basis of cumulative error. After a thorough review of the record, we affirm the judgment of the post-conviction court.