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· 6/9/2022

Quincy Scott v. State of Tennessee

Syllabus

Quincy Scott (\Petitioner\) filed a petition for post-conviction relief claiming that he received ineffective assistance of counsel at his probation revocation hearing. The postconviction court dismissed the petition based on the holding of Young v. State, 101 S.W.3d 430, 433 (Tenn. Crim. App. 2002), that the Post-Conviction Procedure Act \does not permit the filing of a petition . . . to attack collaterally the validity of a proceeding to revoke the suspension of sentence and/or probation.\ We affirm.

Judges: Judge Robert L. Holloway

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