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The Tennessee Supreme Court will hear the case of a Clay County man convicted of first degree murder in 2015.
Edward Walsh faces life imprisonment for the first degree murder charge and a concurrent two-year sentence for the abuse of a corpse conviction. On appeal, Walsh argued that closing arguments were based on inferences from facts not in evidence. Walsh asked the Supreme Court for a new trial.
The Supreme Court agreed to hear the case “only as to the question presented by Mr. Walsh in his application about whether plenary or plain error review should apply to a claim of prosecutorial misconduct during closing argument when a contemporaneous objection is not lodged at the time the misconduct allegedly occurred, but the claim is raised in the motion for a new trial.”
Walsh’s appeal will be placed on the docket for oral arguments.
