Maurice Jevon Chapman v. State of Tennessee
Syllabus
The Petitioner, Maurice Jevon Chapman, pleaded guilty to aggravated robbery, and the trial court entered the sentence to which the parties agreed, twenty years, as a Range II offender. The State filed a notice of nolle prosequi of nine other counts against him. The Petitioner filed a timely petition for post-conviction relief in which he alleged that his counsel was ineffective for failing to explain to him the theory of criminal responsibility for another, rendering his guilty plea unknowingly and involuntarily entered. The post-conviction court dismissed the petition after a hearing. On appeal, we affirm the post-conviction court's judgment.
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- concluding there was little risk of an erroneous deprivation of a child’s rights by absence of counsel at an initial truancy hearing
- noting that “it remains undetermined whether the Lassiter decision by the United States Supreme Court has eroded the constitutional underpinnings of this court’s decision in Luscier,” but nonetheless assuming its continued viability
- little risk of erroneous deprivation of child' s rights by absence of counsel at initial truancy hearing
- whether due process requires the appointment of counsel to represent a child at an initial truancy hearing
- whether due process requires the appointment of counsel to represent a child at an initial truancy hearing
- where statute made counsel for juvenile at initial truancy hearing discretionary, juvenile's claim that article I, section 3 offered broader protection than federal counterpart and required appointment ofcounsel would require court to hold statute is unconstitutional
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Judges: Judge Robert W. Wedemeyer
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