Thomas A. Street v. Howard Carlton, Warden, and State of Tennessee

The petitioner was convicted of first degree murder for a killing that occurred in 1985, and was unsuccessful both in a direct appeal of his conviction and a petition for post-conviction relief. Subsequently, he filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus, the denial of which is the basis for this appeal. In that petition, he claimed, as he had in his earlier petition for post-conviction relief, that his conviction should be reversed because the jurors were allowed to separate during the trial. Based upon our review, we affirm the post-conviction court's dismissal of the petition.