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STATE OF TENNESSEE v. CHRISTOPHER BOLDEN

Posted by: Karen Belcher on Feb 7, 2024

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1: Phyllis Aluko, District Public Defender; and Glover Wright and Katherine Oberembt, Assistant District Public Defenders, for the appellant, Christopher Bolden.

Attorneys 2: Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter; Richard D. Douglas, Senior Assistant Attorney General; Amy P. Weirich, District Attorney General; and Matt McLeod, Brad Reasonover, and Forrest Edwards, Assistant District Attorneys General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): HOLLOWAY

A Shelby County jury convicted Defendant, Christopher Bolden, of especially aggravated robbery, for which he received a sentence of twenty years’ incarceration. On appeal, Defendant contends that: (1) the trial court erred in denying his motion to dismiss the indictment for lack of a speedy trial; (2) the trial court erred in denying his motion for severance of his case from that of his co-defendant; (3) the trial court erred in “curtailing [Defendant’s] questions in jury selection”; (4) the trial court erred in denying Defendant’s request to cross-examine the victim about “potential bias” related to cases that the State dismissed against the victim while Defendant awaited trial; (5) the trial court erred in admitting Defendant’s prior conviction for robbery “without engaging in the required analysis”; (6) the trial court erred in allowing the State to ask questions about “an irrelevant and prejudicial rap music video”; (7) the trial court erred by refusing to fully bifurcate a charged count of convicted felon in possession of a firearm from all other counts; and (8) the evidence was insufficient to support his conviction. Following a thorough review, we affirm Defendant’s judgment of conviction.

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