Steven Jeffrey Pike v. State of Tennessee

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The Petitioner, Steven Jeffrey Pike, appeals the Knox County Criminal Court's denial of his post-conviction petition, wherein he challenged his conviction for first degree premeditated murder. On appeal, the Petitioner argues that (1) trial counsel provided ineffective assistance in failing to impeach a witness for the State with the witness's prior statement to police (2) appellate counsel provided ineffective assistance in failing to raise on appeal the trial court's limitation of defense expert's testimony (3) appellate counsel provided ineffective assistance in failing to raise on appeal that the Petitioner's involuntary statements constituted a due process violation not subject to harmless error analysis and (4) the multiple errors committed by trial counsel and appellate counsel constituted prejudicial error in the aggregate.1 After review, we affirm the denial of post-conviction relief.