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IN THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS OF TENNESSEE
AT NASHVILLE
Assigned on Briefs April 6, 2004

JOHNNY L. MCGOWAN, JR. v. STATE OF TENNESSEE
Direct Appeal from the Circuit Court for Rutherford County
No. 27902, 27903 Don Ash, Judge

No. M2003-01759-CCA-R3-HC - Filed June 7, 2004
The Petitioner, Johnny L. McGowan, Jr., pled guilty in 1994 to aggravated arson, arson, six counts of reckless endangerment with a deadly weapon and two counts of vandalism, and the trial court sentenced him to twenty years in prison, to be served concurrently with a sentence from a previous conviction.  In 2003, the Petitioner filed two pro se petitions for writs of habeas corpus in case numbers 27902 and 27903 alleging that his guilty pleas were not entered knowingly and voluntarily and requesting that the trial court appoint him counsel.  The trial court summarily dismissed the petitions because it found that the Petitioner

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