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Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 7/19/1995

State v. Hart

Citations

  • 911 S.W.2d 371
  • 1995 Tenn. Crim. App. LEXIS 615

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that affidavits containing relevant and material information, in which the affiant has personal knowledge, should be filed in support of the grounds raised in the coram nobis petition
  • explaining that if the coram nobis court does not believe the witnesses presented in support of the coram nobis petition, the court should deny the petition
  • stating that an affidavit “must be relevant, material and germane to the grounds raised in the [coram nobis] petition; and the affiant must have personal knowledge of the statements contained in the affidavit”
  • “If the trial court does not believe that the witnesses presented by the accused are credible, the court shou ld deny [relief].”
  • rule requiring coram nobis court to find that newly discovered evidence may have resulted in a different judgment \presupposes that the evidence ... would be admissible pursuant to the applicable rules of evidence....\
  • rule requiring coram nobis court to find that newly discovered evidence may have resulted in a different judgment “presupposes that the evidence . . . would be admissible pursuant to the applicable rules of evidence . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Jones, Wade, Byers

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298 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

Cites

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