Raymond Denton v. State of Tennessee

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The Petitioner, Raymond Denton, appeals the Shelby County Criminal Court's denial of his petition for post-conviction relief, seeking relief from his convictions of aggravated rape, aggravated burglary, and physical abuse of an impaired person and resulting effective ninety-year sentence. On appeal, the Petitioner claims that he received the ineffective assistance of counsel because trial counsel failed to obtain an expert to rebut the State's expert regarding penetration failed to object to medical opinions given by the victim's granddaughter, who was not an expert and failed to object to the prosecutors' improper closing arguments. Based upon the record and the parties' briefs, we affirm the judgment of the post-conviction court.