Any attorney appointed to represent any person under this part shall proceed to counsel with and represent the person at all stages of the proceedings before the court which appointed the attorney and also upon any appeal from the judgment of the court which imposes a prison sentence. Appointed counsel is required to represent the defendant only through the initial appellate review and is not required to pursue the matter through a second tier discretionary appeal by applying to the supreme court for writ of certiorari.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 40-14-203
Scope of representation
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case State v. Gillespie (1994)
Most recently applied in Guadalupe Arroyo v. State of Tennessee (May 2014)
Acts 1965, ch. 217, § 5; 1976, ch. 645, § 1; T.C.A., § 40-2018.
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
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