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STATE OF TENNESSEE v. KINNEY LOUIS SPEARS

Posted by: Tanja Trezise on Feb 2, 2024

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1: F. Lee Spratt, Charlotte, Tennessee, for the appellant, Kinney Louis Spears.

Attorneys 2: Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter; Benjamin A. Ball, Senior Assistant Attorney General; W. Ray Crouch, Jr., District Attorney General; and Talmage Woodall, Assistant District Attorney General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): EASTER

Defendant, Kinney Louis Spears, was indicted by the Houston County Grand Jury for the first degree murder of his wife, Mia Donnita Spears. The Houston County Circuit Court granted Defendant’s motion for a change of venue and transferred the case to the Dickson County Circuit Court. A Dickson County jury found Defendant guilty of the lesserincluded offense of second degree murder, and the trial court sentenced Defendant to serve 25 years’ confinement. In this appeal as of right, Defendant asserts that the evidence is insufficient to support his conviction, that several improper comments by the prosecutor during closing argument constitute plain error, and that his sentence is excessive. Having reviewed the entire record and the briefs of the parties, we affirm the judgment of the trial court.

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