Court Opinion

ID: 9668873
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 02:29:18.656428+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:15:49.036258
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REID, Chief Justice,
concurring in part and dissenting in part.
I concur with the reversal of the sentence; however, I would affirm the conviction and reduce the sentence to life imprisonment. For the reasons stated in State v. Middlebrooks, 840 S.W.2d 317 (Tenn.1992), I would hold that Article I, Section 16 of the Tennessee Constitution prohibits the imposition of the death penalty in this case. The record does not show that the killing was deliberate or intentional or accompanied by a conscious purpose of producing death or a conscious realization that death will likely occur. Supra at 353 (Reid, C.J., concurring and dissenting).