IN THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS OF TENNESSEE
AT KNOXVILLE FILED
JUNE 1997 SESSION
October 1, 1997
Cecil Crowson, Jr.
Appellate C ourt Clerk
WILLIAM DAVID CLAPP, )
)
Appellant, ) No. 03C01-9605-CC-00193
)
) Sullivan County
v. )
) Honorable Frank L. Slaughter, Judge
)
STATE OF TENNESSEE, ) (Post-Conviction)
)
Appellee. )
For the Appellant: For the Appellee:
William David Clapp, Pro Se Charles W. Burson
Reg. No. 04405-084 Attorney General of Tennessee
P.O. Box 4000 Knox-A and
Manchester, KY 40962-4000 Sarah M. Branch
(AT TRIAL & ON APPEAL) Assistant Attorney General of Tennessee
450 James Robertson Parkway
Kenneth F. Irvine, Jr. Nashville, TN 37243-0493
606 W. Main Street, Suite 350
P.O. Box 84 H. Greeley Welles, Jr.
Knoxville, TN 37901-0084 District Attorney General
(ON APPEAL) and
Barry P. Staubus
Assistant District Attorney General
P.O. Box 526
Blountville, TN 37617-0526
OPINION FILED:____________________
AFFIRMED
Joseph M. Tipton
Judge
OPINION
The petitioner, William David Clapp, appeals as of right from the Sullivan
County Criminal Court’s dismissal of his petition for post-conviction relief. The trial
court dismissed the petition, concluding that it was barred by the statute of limitations.
We affirm the judgment of the trial court.
The petitioner collaterally challenges convictions he received in 1978 and
1980 as the result of guilty pleas. He filed the present petition for post-conviction relief
March 4, 1996. He argues that his petition was filed timely under the 1995 Post-
Conviction Procedure Act. However, in Arnold Carter v. State, No. 03-S-01-9612-CR-
00117, Monroe County (Tenn. Sept. 8, 1997) (for publication), our supreme court held
that the 1995 Act did not reinstate a filing period for post-conviction cases relative to
convictions for which the former three-year post-conviction statute of limitations had
already run. The judgment of the trial court is affirmed.
Joseph M. Tipton, Judge
CONCUR:
John H. Peay, Judge
Curwood Witt, Judge
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