Quincy D. Scott v. State of Tennessee

In 2016, Petitioner, Quincy D. Scott, was convicted by a McMinn County jury of
aggravated robbery, for which he received a sentence of seventeen years’ incarceration as
a Range II, multiple offender at eighty-five percent to be served consecutively to sentences
for convictions in other counties. His conviction was affirmed on direct appeal, and the
Tennessee Supreme Court denied review. Petitioner then sought post-conviction relief,
alleging the ineffective assistance of trial and appellate counsel. Following a bifurcated
hearing only on Petitioner’s appellate counsel claim, the post-conviction court granted a
delayed appeal, finding that Petitioner had received the ineffective assistance of appellate
counsel. A panel of this Court reversed and remanded, concluding that the post-conviction
court had failed to make sufficient findings of fact and conclusions of law. On remand, the
post-conviction court again heard Petitioner’s claims of ineffective assistance of appellate
counsel as well as his trial counsel claims. The post-conviction court denied relief, and
this appeal followed. On appeal, Petitioner asserts that trial counsel ineffectively crossexamined
the State’s witnesses, that trial counsel failed to file motions to suppress several
pieces of evidence, that trial counsel failed to appeal the general sessions court’s bind over
of his charges to the grand jury, that the evidence was insufficient to support his conviction,
that newly discovered evidence proves his actual innocence, and that appellate counsel
failed to file a reply brief on appeal.1 After a thorough review, we affirm the judgment of
the post-conviction court.