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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF TENNESSEE
AT KNOXVILLE
May 4, 2010 Session

STATE OF TENNESSEE v. JOHN PATRICK HENRETTA
Autom atic A ppeal from the C ourt of Crim inal A ppeals
C riminal Court for Bradley County
N o. 97-334 R . Steven Bebb, Judge

N o. E2007-01750-SC-DDT-DD -Filed September 30, 2010
T his capital case involves the 1988 rape, murder, robbery, and kidnapping of a thrift store employee in Cleveland, Tennessee. A Bradley County jury convicted the defendant of premeditated murder, felony murder, tw o counts of robbery with a deadly w eapon, two counts of aggravated rape, and two counts of aggravated kidnapping. The trial court merged the premeditated murder and felony murder convictions into a single conviction for which the jury imposed a sentence of death after hearing proof of aggravating and mitigating circumstances. The trial court merged the remaining convictions into a single conviction for each offense and imposed concurrent sentences of forty-five years for robbery with a deadly w eapon, fifty years for aggravated kidnapping, and fifty years for aggravated rape, all concurrent w ith the sentence of death. The Court of Criminal A ppeals affirmed the defendant

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