§ 40-30-307. Appointment of Counsel for Indigents
The court may, at any time during proceedings instituted under this part, appoint counsel for an indigent petitioner.
§ 40-30-208. Appointment of Assistants and Other Staff — Method of Payments
The post-conviction defender is authorized to appoint, employ, and establish, in the numbers as the post-conviction defender determines, full-time assistant post-conviction defenders, investigators, and other clerical and support personnel who shall be paid from funds appropriated for that purpose.
§ 40-30-209. Salary
The post-conviction defender shall be paid a salary equal to the amount established by law for district public defenders. Full-time assistant post-conviction defenders shall be compensated in an amount set by the post-conviction defender in compliance with the assistant public defender’s pay schedule and shall be paid from funds appropriated for that purpose. All payments […]
§ 40-30-210. Records and Reports
The post-conviction defender shall keep appropriate records and make annual reports concerning caseload, funding, staffing, and salaries to the post-conviction defender oversight commission; provided, however, that the post-conviction defender and the defender’s staff shall not discuss specific details about any case with the members of the commission.
§ 40-30-301. Short Title
This part shall be known and may be cited as the “Post-Conviction DNA Analysis Act of 2001.”
§ 40-30-302. “Dna Analysis” Defined
As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires, “DNA analysis” means the process through which deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) in a human biological specimen is analyzed and compared with DNA from another biological specimen for identification purposes.
§ 40-30-120. Stays of Execution When Petitioner Is Under Sentence of Death
When affirming a conviction and sentence of death on direct appeal, the Tennessee supreme court shall contemporaneously set a date for an execution. The date shall be no less than four (4) months from the date of the judgment of the Tennessee supreme court. Upon the filing of a petition for post-conviction relief, the court […]
§ 40-30-121. Priority
Post-conviction cases where the petitioner is under the death sentence shall be given priority over all other matters in docketing by the courts having trial and appellate jurisdiction of the cases.
§ 40-30-122. Interpretation
For purposes of this part, a new rule of constitutional criminal law is announced if the result is not dictated by precedent existing at the time the petitioner’s conviction became final and application of the rule was susceptible to debate among reasonable minds. A new rule of constitutional criminal law shall not be applied retroactively […]
§ 40-30-201. Short Title
This part shall be known and may be cited as the “Post-Conviction Defender Oversight Commission Act of 2011.”