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Title: State v. Gilliand
Author : In the Supreme Court of Tennessee at Nashville
Release Date : January 19, 2000
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 64 KB

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We granted appeal in this case to decide the following two issues: (1) whether the trial court abused its discretion in a felony murder prosecution by admitting evidence that the appellant was involved in a prior shooting of two individuals in order to "tell the full story" of the current prosecution; and (2) whether the States withdrawal of its notice seeking the death penalty was also an implicit withdrawal of the States notice seeking life imprisonment without parole. We hold that although the trial court abused its discretion in admitting evidence of the other killings, the error did not affirmatively affect the outcome of the trial. We also hold that the States withdrawal of its notice seeking the death penalty is, without more, also a withdrawal of its notice seeking life without parole. Accordingly, the judgment of the Court of Criminal Appeals is affirmed in part as modified and reversed in part. The appellants conviction is sustained, and pursuant to Tennessee Code Annotated section 39-13-208(c), the appellants sentence is modified to imprisonment for life.