Opinion

State v. Buck

  • 670 S.W.2d 600
  • 1984 Tenn. LEXIS 926
Court
Tennessee Supreme Court
Filed
Jan 30, 1984
Status
Published
Author
Fones
On the bench
Fones, Cooper, Harbison, Drowota, Brock
Cited by
234 cases

stating that information in NCIC reports is pure hearsay of a dubious degree of accuracy, prepared for purposes other than court use, contains information that is likely to be prejudicial under all circumstances, and is not the best evidence of matters that can be proven by reliable, documentary evidence

How later courts described this case

  • stating that information in NCIC reports is pure hearsay of a dubious degree of accuracy, prepared for purposes other than court use, contains information that is likely to be prejudicial under all circumstances, and is not the best evidence of matters that can be proven by reliable, documentary evidence
  • adopting the five-factor analysis enunciated in Judge v. State, 539 S.W.2d 340, 344 (Tenn.Crim.App. 1976)
  • holding that the jury charge for the (i)(7) aggravating circumstance should have been limited to rape, robbery, and kidnapping
  • considering the felony murder aggravating circumstance as a single aggravating circumstance when the murder occurred while the defendant was committing rape, *205 robbery, and kidnapping

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

OPINION ON PETITION TO REHEAR

FONES, Chief Justice.

A petition to rehear has been filed on behalf of defendant asserting several propositions that defendant assumes the Court overlooked. We have again considered those issues and arguments and again found them to be without merit.

The Petition to Rehear is denied.

COOPER, BROCK, HARBISON and DROWOTA, JJ., concur.

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