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STATE OF TENNESSEE v. JOSHUA BOWMAN

Posted by: Azya Thornton on Mar 3, 2026

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1: Gerald L. Gulley, Jr., Knoxville, Tennessee, for the Appellant, Joshua Bowman.

Attorneys 2: Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter; Katherine C. Redding, Senior Assistant Attorney General; Charme P. Allen, District Attorney General; and Ta Kisha Fitzgerald, Assistant District Attorney General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): WEDEMEYER

In 2011, a Knox County jury convicted the Petitioner, Joshua Bowman, of multiple offenses stemming from the robbery and killing of the victim. He appealed his convictions, all of which were affirmed save one: his conviction for especially aggravated kidnapping, which we remanded for a new trial based on a jury instruction error. State v. Bowman, No. E2012-00923-CCA-R3-CD, 2013 WL 4680402, at *1 (Tenn. Crim. App. Aug. 29, 2013), perm. app. denied (Tenn. Feb. 11, 2014). In 2022, the Petitioner filed a petition for a writ of error coram nobis saying that there was newly discovered evidence in the form of his mental and counseling records, which supported his “intellectually diminished capacity argument.” The State did not file its response until 2025, and it asserted that the records were not newly discovered because they were his own records and, therefore, known to him. After a hearing, the coram nobis court dismissed the petition finding that the petition was untimely and that the Petitioner was not entitled to tolling because he was aware of his educational limitations before trial and had discussed those limitations with his trial attorney. After review, we affirm the judgment of the trial court.

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