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Discovery Request Petition Prohibited While Another Court Entertains Post conviction Proceedings

Loaded on Dec. 15, 2007

Filed under: Criminal Prosecution, Disclosure of Records, Discovery, Sentencing, Habeas Corpus. Location: Tennessee.

Tennessee State pro se prisoner Ronald Waller appealed the 1998 denial of his petition under the Public Records Act to obtain copies of photographs taken in connection with his conviction. The denial was affirmed because he was statutorily prohibited from filing discovery requests for alternative proceedings while post conviction proceedings ...

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