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IN THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS OF TENNESSEE
AT KNOXVILLE
June 27, 2012 Session

JERMAINE R. CARPENTER v. STATE OF TENNESSEE
Direct A ppeal from the C rim inal Court for Sullivan County
N o. C 58407 R obert H . M ontgomery, Jr., Judge

No. E2011-02294-CC A -R 3-PC December 28, 2012
The petitioner, Jermaine R. Carpenter, filed for post-conviction relief from his conviction of simple possession of cocaine and tw o convictions of the sale of .5 grams or more of a substance containing cocaine within 1,000 feet of a school zone, alleging that his trial counsel w as ineffective. The post-conviction court denied the petition, and the petitioner now appeals. U pon review , w e affirm the judgment of the post-conviction court.

Tenn. R . App. P. 3 Appeal as of Right; Judgm ent of the Criminal Court is Affirmed.
NORMA MCGEE OGLE, J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which JAMES CURWOOD WITT, JR., and D. KELLY THOMAS, JR., JJ., joined.
Jim R. W illiams, Kingsport, Tennessee, for the appellant, Jermaine R. Carpenter.
R obert E. Cooper, Jr., A ttorney General and Reporter; Leslie E. Price, Assistant A ttorney G eneral; Barry P. Staubus, D istrict Attorney G eneral; and Teresa Nelson, Assistant D istrict A ttorney G eneral, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

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I. Factual Background
O n direct appeal, this court summarized the proof at trial as follow s:
D etective Cliff Ferguson of the K ingsport Police Department testified that he was em ployed in the police department

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