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Stephen Bernard Wlodarz v. State of Tennessee

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Overruled in part
Court
Supreme Court of Tennessee
Citation
361 S.W.3d 490
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
33 of 33
Citing cases (total)
33
Treatment dates
2016
Overruled in part
A reviewed court has overruled part of this case’s holding. All 33 flagged citations have been read. In Clark D. Frazier v. State of Tennessee, the Tennessee Supreme Court overturned Wlodarz's holding that a guilty plea can be challenged through a petition for writ of error coram nobis.
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That treatment is listed below. Later courts continued to cite Wlodarz for its other rules on newly discovered evidence and statutory interpretation.

Every treatment on this page is written from the citing opinion itself, with a verbatim quote, never copied from a commercial citator. A citation flagged by our screen but not shown here was read and found not to weaken this case.

33 later cases cite Stephen Bernard Wlodarz v. State of Tennessee; 33 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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Treatments

Overruled in part

  • The Tennessee Supreme Court overturned Wlodarz's rule permitting a defendant to attack a guilty plea through a coram nobis petition.

    Clark D. Frazier v. State of Tennessee · Tennessee Supreme Court · filed

    We hold that the coram nobis statute is not available as a procedural mechanism for collaterally attacking a guilty plea. We overturn Wlodarz and any other Tennessee cases holding otherwise.
    Read the full opinion on CourtListener →

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