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CORDERRO AVANT v. STATE OF TENNESSEE

Posted by: Azya Thornton on Jan 7, 2025

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1: Shae Atkinson (at hearing) and Biana Y. Valdez (on appeal), Memphis, Tennessee, for the appellant, Corderro Avant.

Attorneys 2: Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter; Benjamin A. Ball, Senior Assistant Attorney General; and Steven P. Mulroy, District Attorney General; and Carrie Shelton Bash, Assistant District Attorney General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): WEDEMEYER

In 2014, a Shelby County jury convicted the Petitioner, Corderro Avant, and a co- defendant, of several charges against several victims of a shooting, including one count of first degree premeditated murder; one count of attempted first degree murder resulting in serious bodily injury; nine counts of attempted first degree murder; and eleven counts of employing a firearm during the commission of a dangerous felony. The trial court imposed an effective life sentence plus twenty-one years. The Petitioner appealed and this court affirmed the judgments. State v. Avant, No. W2018-01154-CCA-R3-CD, 2019 WL 3072131, at *1 (Tenn. Crim. App. 2019), perm. app. denied (Tenn. 2020). Thereafter, the Petitioner filed a petition for a writ of error coram nobis. The trial court denied the petition after a hearing on the basis that the statute of limitations had expired. On appeal, the Petitioner contends that his petition was timely and should have been granted based on newly discovered evidence. After review, we affirm the trial court’s judgment.

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