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STATE OF TENNESSEE v. LANDON ALLEN TURNER

Posted by: Tanja Trezise on May 22, 2024

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1: M. Keith Davis (on appeal and at trial), Dunlap, Tennessee; Ted Engel, District Public Defender; and Norman Lipton (at juvenile transfer hearing), Assistant Public Defender, Jasper, Tennessee, for the appellant, Landon Allen Turner.

Attorneys 2: Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter; Benjamin A. Ball, Senior Assistant Attorney General; Courtney Lynch, District Attorney General; and Steven H. Strain and Sherry D. Shelton (at trial), and Julia Veal (at juvenile transfer hearing), Assistant District Attorneys General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): EASTER

A Marion County jury convicted Landon Allen Turner, Defendant, of reckless homicide and aggravated child abuse for the death of Z.H., Defendant’s girlfriend’s two-year-old son. He argues on appeal that: (1) the juvenile court erred in transferring his case to circuit court; (2) the State violated its Brady obligations by failing to provide defense counsel with a copy of Defendant’s statements prior to the juvenile transfer hearing; (3) the evidence was insufficient to support his convictions; (4) his conviction for aggravated child abuse should be barred under the doctrine of “mutually exclusive verdicts”; and (5) his sentence is excessive. After review, we affirm the judgments.

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