Tennessee Supreme Court, 1992

The court affirmed Evans’s felony-murder conviction, concluding that the evidence was sufficient and that his challenges to the trial proceedings did not establish reversible error.

The Tennessee Supreme Court affirmed Harris’s convictions for two first-degree murders and the jury’s death sentences, concluding that the challenged trial rulings did not warrant reversal, the evidence was sufficient, and the statutory aggravating circumstances and sentences were supported.

The Tennessee Supreme Court held that the remedial scheme of T.C.A. § 22‑4‑108(f) is not exclusive, allowing a common‑law action for compensatory damages for retaliatory discharge, and it established new, limited criteria for awarding punitive damages, requiring intentional, fraudulent, malicious, or reckless conduct…