a death penalty imposed by a Blount County Circuit Court jury...
a death penalty imposed by a Blount County Circuit Court jury 5 years ago has been set aside by the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals.
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a death penalty imposed by a Blount County Circuit Court jury 5 years ago has been set aside by the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals.
Arthur T. "A.C." Copeland was tried and convicted of 1st-degree murder in the April 6, 1998 murder of 18-year-old Robert Andre Jackson. The jury that convicted Copeland in the July 2000 trial sentenced him to death.
In the decision, a panel of three appeals court judges ruled the sentence was "disproportionate to the penalty imposed in similar cases."
Arthur T. "A.C." Copeland was tried and convicted of 1st-degree murder in the April 6, 1998 murder of 18-year-old Robert Andre Jackson. The jury that convicted Copeland in the July 2000 trial sentenced him to death.
In the decision, a panel of three appeals court judges ruled the sentence was "disproportionate to the penalty imposed in similar cases."
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- (Sources: The Daily Times, 22/08/2005)
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