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IN THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS OF TENNESSEE
AT KNOXVILLE
Assigned on Briefs October 30, 2001

KENNETH MacARTHUR JOHNSON v. STATE OF TENNESSEE
Appeal from the Criminal Court for Hawkins County
No. 7775 James E. Beckner, Judge

No. E2001-00068-CCA-R3-PC
December 18, 2001

Aggrieved of his second degree murder conviction, the petitioner seeks post-conviction relief, which was denied by the lower court after an evidentiary hearing.  On appeal, the petitioner presents several issues of the ineffective assistance of counsel. We affirm the denial of post-conviction relief.

Tenn. R. App. P. 3; Judgment of the Criminal Court Affirmed.
JAMES CURWOOD WITT, JR., J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which DAVID G. HAYES and JOHN EVERETT WILLIAMS, JJ., joined.
R. Russell Mattocks, District Public Defender, for the Appellant, Kenneth MacArthur Johnson.
Paul G. Summers, Attorney General & Reporter; Angele M. Gregory, Assistant Attorney General;
C. Berkeley Bell, Jr., District Attorney General; and Doug Godbee, Assistant District Attorney General, for the Appellee, State of Tennessee.

OPINION
Following a jury trial in the Hawkins County Criminal Court, the petitioner, Kenneth MacArthur Johnson, was convicted of the second degree murder of his wife, Phyllis Johnson.  His conviction and 25-year sentence were affirmed on appeal. See State v. Kenneth MacArthur Johnson, No. 03C01-9901-CR-00009 (Tenn. Crim. App., Knoxville, Nov. 12, 1999), perm. app. denied (Tenn. 2000).  The petitioner then filed a timely petition for post-conviction relief, which the trial court denied after an evidentiary hearing.  On appeal of the denial of his petition, the petitioner raises the following issues of the ineffective assistance of trial and appellate counsel:
1. Trial counsel

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