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STATE OF TENNESSEE v. JONATHAN KEITH HUGHES, JR.

Posted by: Karen Belcher on May 17, 2024

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1: Gordon W. Rahn (on appeal); and Christopher Clark (at trial), Clarksville, Tennessee, for the appellant, Jonathan Keith Hughes, Jr.

Attorneys 2: Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter; Caroline Weldon, Assistant Attorney General; W. Ray Crouch, District Attorney General; and Carey Thompson and Jennifer Stribling, Assistant District Attorneys General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): WITT

The defendant, Jonathan Keith Hughes, Jr., was convicted by a Dickson County Circuit Court jury of one count of first degree murder, one count of criminally negligent homicide, and three counts of conspiracy to commit murder. On appeal, the defendant challenges the trial court’s admission of evidence of his gang affiliation, the trial court’s failure to provide an accomplice instruction to the jury, and the sufficiency of the convicting evidence. Upon review of the record, we remand the case to the trial court for entry of corrected judgments reflecting the defendant’s convictions for conspiracy to commit first degree murder under the proper statute. We otherwise affirm the judgments of the trial court.

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