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GEORGE W. COSEY v. STATE OF TENNESSEE

Posted by: Azya Thornton on Feb 28, 2025

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1: Susan L. Kay, Vanderbilt Legal Clinic; Madeline Strasser and Tyler Hall (at oral argument), and Falynn D. Dunkelberger (in second amended petition) (Specially admitted to practice pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 7 § 10.03); and Lindsay Baumgardner Smith (in first amended petition), Nashville, Tennessee, for the appellant, George W. Cosey.

Attorneys 2: Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter; Joseph Fiorile, Honors Fellow; Glenn R. Funk, District Attorney General; and Amy Hunter, Assistant District Attorney General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): HOLLOWAY

Petitioner, George W. Cosey, pleaded nolo contendere to Class E felony theft and received an agreed one-year sentence. Petitioner subsequently filed a petition for post-conviction relief, which the Davidson County Criminal Court denied after a hearing. On appeal, Petitioner argues that he received the ineffective assistance of counsel because counsel did not inform him that, between the time of the offense and Petitioner’s plea, the theft grading statute had been amended. After a thorough review of the record, we affirm.

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