Court Opinion

ID: 9662143
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 23:00:21.973581+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:14:37.137319
License: Public Domain

REID, Justice,
concurring.
This is a post-conviction proceeding, in which the petitioner seeks relief from his sentence of death on the ground that use of an invalid enhancement factor first recognized in State v. Middlebrooks, 840 S.W.2d 317 (Tenn.1992), cert. dismissed, — U.S. -, 114 S.Ct. 651, 126 L.Ed.2d 555 (1993), was a violation of his rights under Article I, Section 16 of the Tennessee Constitution.
I agree with the holding in the main opinion that Meadows v. State, 849 S.W.2d 748 (Tenn.1993), makes the principle stated in Middlebrooks applicable to the petitioner’s sentence. And, even though I do not agree with the analysis in the main opinion of the procedural or substantive law applicable to this case, I concur in the judgment that the sentence be affirmed.