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IN THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS OF TENNESSEE
AT NASHVILLE
Assigned on Briefs September 19, 2007

JACOB EDWARD CAMPBELL v. STATE OF TENNESSEE
Appeal from the Criminal Court for Davidson County
No. 2001-B-896 J. Randall Wyatt, Jr., Judge

No. M2006-02727-CCA-R3-PC - Filed November 30, 2007
The Appellant, Jacob Edward Campbell, appeals the dismissal of his petition for post-conviction relief by the Davidson County Criminal Court.  After a jury trial in 2002, Campbell was convicted of first-degree murder and robbery, and he was ordered to serve consecutive sentences of life imprisonment and ten years.  On appeal, Campbell argues that he was denied his Sixth Amendment right to the effective assistance of counsel.  After a thorough review of the record on appeal and the arguments of the parties, we affirm.  

Tenn. R. App. P. 3; Judgment of the Criminal Court Affirmed
DAVID G. HAYES, J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which JERRY L. SMITH and THOM AS T. WOODALL, JJ., joined.
J. Chase Gober, Nashville, Tennessee, for the Appellant, Jacob Edward Campbell.
Robert E. Cooper, Jr., Attorney General and Reporter; Alice B. Lustre, Assistant Attorney General; Victor S. Johnson III, District Attorney General; and Katrin Miller, Assistant District Attorney General, for the Appellee, State of Tennessee.
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