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Ben Russ (defense counsel) opened, identified himself as counsel for Mr. Jenkins and asked to reserve two minutes of rebuttal time; the request was acknowledged by the court.
Oral arguments in a Tennessee appellate case concerning Mr. Jenkins focused on (1) an equal-protection challenge to a local practice of assigning two attorneys (one paid, one unpaid) to indigent homicide defendants and whether that practice disadvantaged Jenkins, and (2) whether a recorded jail-phone statement was sufficient to require a self-defense jury instruction. The state argued invited-error review and that Jenkins had provoked the deadly encounter; defense counsel disputed both points. The court took the case under advisement.
