David Keen v. State of Tennessee

The Petitioner, David Keen, raped and murdered the eight-year-old daughter of his girlfriend in March 1990, later discarding the body by throwing it into the Wolf River in Memphis. He pled guilty in 1991 to first degree murder and aggravated rape and was sentenced, respectively, to death and imprisonment for twenty years. See Keen v. State, 398 S.W.3d 594, 597-98 (Tenn. 2012). In his latest of many post-conviction filings, he argues that the Tennessee Supreme Court erred in its decision in Payne v. State, 493 S.W.3d 478 (Tenn. 2016), which denies relief for his claims; that his coram nobis petition was not time-barred; and that he is entitled to relief under Tennessee Rule of Criminal Procedure 36.1 because his sentence is illegal. He additionally seeks advice from this court as to what other avenues he may utilize in seeking relief. The coram nobis court denied relief, and we affirm that decision and decline to provide the advisory opinion sought by the Petitioner.