STATE OF TENNESSEE v. JOSHUA BOWMAN

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In 2011, a Knox County jury convicted the Petitioner, Joshua Bowman, of multipleoffenses stemming from the robbery and killing of the victim. He appealed his convictions,all of which were affirmed save one: his conviction for especially aggravated kidnapping,which we remanded for a new trial based on a jury instruction error. State v. Bowman, No.E2012-00923-CCA-R3-CD, 2013 WL 4680402, at 1 (Tenn. Crim. App. Aug. 29, 2013),perm. app. denied (Tenn. Feb. 11, 2014). In 2022, the Petitioner filed a petition for a writof error coram nobis saying that there was newly discovered evidence in the form of hismental and counseling records, which supported his \intellectually diminished capacityargument.\ The State did not file its response until 2025, and it asserted that the recordswere not newly discovered because they were his own records and, therefore, known tohim. After a hearing, the coram nobis court dismissed the petition finding that the petitionwas untimely and that the Petitioner was not entitled to tolling because he was aware of hiseducational limitations before trial and had discussed those limitations with his trialattorney. After review, we affirm the judgment of the trial court.