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State v. Shaw

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Abrogated
Court
Supreme Court of Tennessee
Citation
37 S.W.3d 900
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
32 of 32
Citing cases (total)
32
Treatment dates
2024
Abrogated
A reviewed court treats this case as abrogated by later authority. State v. Shaw's common law accomplice corroboration rule was abrogated prospectively. In State v. Thomas, the Tennessee Supreme Court abolished that rule for trials beginning after its mandate; Simms v. State later identifies Shaw as abrogated by Thomas.
More on how this was screened

Shaw's separate ineffective assistance holding was not addressed. All 32 flagged citations have been read.

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.

32 later cases cite State v. Shaw; 32 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

Abrogated

  • The Tennessee Supreme Court abolished the accomplice corroboration requirement stated in Shaw for trials beginning after the Thomas mandate.

    State v. Thomas · Tennessee Supreme Court · filed

    Additionally, in this opinion, we abrogate Tennessee’s common law accomplice-corroboration rule. However, we apply that change on a prospective basis only, and, thus, it has no bearing on the outcome of this case.
    Read the full opinion on CourtListener →

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