IN THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS OF TENNESSEE

AT KNOXVILLE

April 27, 2022 Session

QUINCY SCOTT v. STATE OF TENNESSEE

Appeal from the Criminal Court for Bradley County

No. 20-CR-301 Andrew M. Freiberg, Judge

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No. E2021-00400-CCA-R3-PC

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Quincy Scott (“Petitioner”) filed a petition for post-conviction relief claiming that he 

received ineffective assistance of counsel at his probation revocation hearing. The postconviction court dismissed the petition based on the holding of Young v. State, 101 S.W.3d 

430, 433 (Tenn. Crim. App. 2002), that the Post-Conviction Procedure Act “does not 

permit the filing of a petition . . . to attack collaterally the validity of a proceeding to revoke 

the suspension of sentence and/or probation.” We affirm.

Tenn. R. App. P. 3 Appeal as of Right; Judgment of the Criminal Court Affirmed

ROBERT L. HOLLOWAY,JR.,J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which JOHN EVERETT 

WILLIAMS, P.J., and TIMOTHY L. EASTER, J., joined.

Austin B. Hayes, Athens, Tennessee, for the appellant, Quincy Scott.

Herbert H. Slatery III, Attorney General and Reporter; Garrett D. Ward, Assistant Attorney 

General; Stephen D. Crump, District Attorney General; and Paul O. Moyle, IV, Assistant 

District Attorney General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

OPINION

Procedural History

Petitioner pleaded guilty to sale of .5 grams or more of cocaine, and the trial court 

imposed an eight-year sentence to be served on supervised probation. State v. Quincy D. 

Scott, No. E2018- 02271-CCA-R3-CD, 2019 WL 3819851, at *1 (Tenn. Crim. App. Aug. 

15, 2019), perm. app. denied (Tenn. Dec. 4, 2019). A probation violation report was issued, 

alleging in part that Petitioner had been arrested and convicted of aggravated robbery in 

McMinn County. Id.. Following a hearing, the trial court fully revoked Petitioner’s 

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probation. Id. Petitioner timely appealed, and this court affirmed the trial court’s decision. 

Id. at *2. 

Petitioner filed a pro se petition for post-conviction relief, claiming that he received 

ineffective assistance of counsel at his probation revocation hearing because counsel 

“failed to raise the only defense [P]etitioner had available against the State’s abridgement 

of his due process rights to a speedy trial, i.e., file [a] Motion to dismiss violation warrant.” 

After appointment of counsel, an amended petition was filed reasserting the claim raised 

in the pro se petition. The State subsequently filed an amended response asking the trial 

court to summarily dismiss the petition on the grounds that Tennessee law did not provide 

for post-conviction relief following a probation revocation. The trial court entered an order 

dismissing the petition. Petitioner timely appeals.

Analysis

Petitioner claims that the post-conviction court erred in dismissing his petition 

without a hearing. The State argues that the court properly dismissed the petition because

the Post-Conviction Procedure Act does not permit the filing of a petition to collaterally

attack the validity of a proceeding to revoke probation. We agree with the State.

As stated by the post-conviction court in its order dismissing the petition, this court 

has held that the Post-Conviction Procedure Act “does not permit the filing of a petition 

under its provisions to attack collaterally the validity of a proceeding to revoke the 

suspension of sentence and/or probation.” Young, 101 S.W.3d at 433. Over the past twenty 

years, this court has consistently reaffirmed the reasoning of Young in the context of 

probation revocation hearings. See e.g., Thomas McLaughlin v. State, No. M2019-02306-

CCA-R3-PC, 2020 WL 7074197, at *6 (Tenn. Crim. App. Dec. 3, 2020), perm. app. denied

(Tenn. Mar. 17, 2021); Ricky L. Hill v. State, No. W2017-02380-CCA-R3-PC, 2018 WL 

4610763, at *1 (Tenn. Crim. App. Sept. 25, 2018) (memorandum opinion); Daniel David 

Eden v. State, No. M2014-00862-CCA-R3-PC, 2015 WL 3612983, at *4 (Tenn. Crim. 

App. June 10, 2015), perm. app. denied (Tenn. Oct. 15, 2015); Christopher Johnson v. 

State, No. E2011-00562-CCA-R3-PC, 2012 WL 1066502, at *3 (Tenn. Crim. App. Mar. 

28, 2012), perm. app. denied (Tenn. Aug. 15, 2012); Charles J. Miller v. State, No. M2008-

01861-CCA-R3-PC, 2010 WL 565666, at *3 (Tenn. Crim. App. Feb. 18, 2010); Michael 

Joseph Grant v. State, No. E2008-02161-CCA-R3-PC, 2009 WL 4282032, at *3 (Tenn.

Crim. App. Dec. 1, 2009); Sherman Clark v. State, No. W2008-02557-CCA-R3-PC, 2009 

WL 4039083, at *2 (Tenn. Crim. App. Nov. 23, 2009) (memorandum opinion); Thomas 

Dewey Perry, Jr. v. State, No. E2008-02324-CCA-R3-PC, 2009 WL 2590050, at *1 (Tenn.

Crim. App. Aug. 24, 2009) (memorandum opinion); Gregory D. McDaniel v. State, No. 

M2008-01534-CCA-R3-PC, 2009 WL 1684598, at *1 (Tenn. Crim. App. June 12, 2009).
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Although the supreme court has held “that the issue of ineffective assistance of 

counsel in a revocation of a community corrections sentence may be raised in a postconviction proceeding,” Carpenter v. State, 136 S.W.3d 608, 612 (Tenn. 2004) (noting that 

“revocation of a community corrections sentence, unlike the revocation of probation, 

presents the additional issue of resentencing”), the supreme court has consistently denied 

permission to appeal in cases where this court, following the holding of Young, has 

affirmed the dismissal of post-conviction petitions challenging probation revocation 

proceedings. 

In light of this well-established precedent, we affirm the judgment of the postconviction court.

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ROBERT L. HOLLOWAY, JR., JUDGE