State of Tennessee v. Richard Odom, a/k/a Otis Smith

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• concluding that declarant was under stress after twelve hours
• determining that the death penalty is not unconstitutional under international law
• affirming a trial court’s admission of a recording of the victim’s body shortly after his murder despite the presence of numerous other photographs of his body
• noting the requirements for reversal of a trial court’s denial of a continuance
• adopting in appendix this court’s conclusion that the provision “does not violate the separation of powers clauses of either the Constitution of the State of Tennessee or the Constitution of the United States of America”
• refusing to apply statute retrospectively where statute was silent as to retrospective application, in part on basis that, “had the legislature intended to depart from the long-established rule that statutes are presumed to apply prospectively, it could have so indicated”

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