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Law letting Tennessee attorney general argue certain capital cases is constitutional, court rules
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee law giving the appointed state attorney general authority to argue certain death penalty cases and removing that power from the hands of locally elected district attorneys is constitutional, an appeals court has ruled. Tennessee’s Court of Criminal Appeals issued a decision Friday striking down a Shelby County judge’s ruling that the law passed by the state’s Republican-controlled Legislature was unconstitutional. Passed in April 2023, the law allows the attorney general to step in and take over post-conviction capital cases. Judge Paula Skahan ruled later that year that the law did not follow the Tennessee Constitution because it removes the power of the lo

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