Attorney General Herbert Slatery quietly filed the request
on Friday with no explanation, and the state Supreme Court later posted it on
its website on Tuesday.
“The Tennessee Constitution guarantees victims of crime the
right to a ‘prompt and final conclusion of the case after the conviction of
sentence,’” Slatery said in a statement Tuesday in response to a request for
comment from The Associated Press.
Slatery’s motion came the same day he publicly announced he
would challenge a Nashville Criminal Court’s decision to commute the death
sentence of black inmate Abu-Ali Abdur’Rahman’s to life in prison after concerns were raised that racism
tainted the jury selection pool. Slatery argued in his appeal that the court’s
order “circumvented established legal procedures.”
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