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IN THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS OF TENNESSEE AT JACKSON JUNE 1997 SESSION

FILED
June 19, 1997 Cecil Crowson, Jr.
Appellate C ourt Clerk

JESSIE LEE BISHOP, Appellant, V.

STATE OF TENNESSEE, Appellee.

) ) C.C.A. No. 02C01-9609-CR-00301 ) ) Shelby County ) ) Honorable Carolyn Wade Blackett, Judge ) ) (Post-Conviction) ) )

FOR THE APPELLANT: Jessie Lee Bishop, Pro Se No. 90028-201 F.C.I. Memphis P.O. Box 34550 Memphis, TN 38184-0550

FOR THE APPELLEE: Charles W. Burson Attorney General & Reporter Sarah M. Branch Counsel for the State 450 James Robertson Parkway Nashville, TN 37243 William L. Gibbons District Attorney General James J. Challen III Assistant District Attorney General Suite 301, 201 Poplar Avenue Memphis, TN 38103

OPINION FILED: ___________________

AFFIRMED

PAUL G. SUMMERS, Judge

OPINION

The appellant, Jessie Lee Bishop, has been convicted of various offenses between 1970 and 1988. In 1996 he filed a petition for post-conviction relief attacking these convictions. The trial court dismissed the petition on the ground that it was barred by the statute of limitations.

The appellant's most recent conviction became final in 1988. At that time the law allowed three years to file a petition for post-conviction relief. Tenn. Code Ann.

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