The first Justice Campbell opinion is bad and unfair and...exactly what everyone should have expected.

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"a statute that repeals a criminal offense does not provide for a lesser penalty" is an incredible line of arbitrary punitive reasoning. It's like the Tennessee Supreme Court read Kafka as an instruction manual.

I believe this is the first Justice Campbell opinion, and oh my is it bad and unfair and…exactly what everyone should have expected: https://tncourts.gov/sites/default/files/deberry_majority_opinion.pdf. Buckle up, folks, it’s going to be a long several years.
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