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STATE OF TENNESSEE v. ROGER BRIDGES

Posted by: Azya Thornton on Jan 31, 2025

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1: Harry E. Sayle, III, Shelby County Assistant Public Defender (on appeal), and Lee Filderman and Erim Sarinoglu, Shelby County Assistant Public Defenders (at trial), for the appellant, Roger Bridges.

Attorneys 2: Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter; J. Katie Neff, Assistant Attorney General; Steven R. Mulroy, District Attorney General; and Gavin Smith and Devon Dennis, Assistant District Attorneys General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): CAMPBELL

The Defendant, Roger Bridges,1 was convicted by a Shelby County Criminal Court jury of three counts of aggravated sexual battery, a Class B felony; sexual battery, a Class E felony; rape, a Class B felony; and rape of a child, a Class A felony, and was sentenced by the trial court to an effective term of fifty-one years at 100% in the Tennessee Department of Correction. The four victims involved were three sisters and their female first cousin, and the offenses occurred over a two-month period that culminated on June 12, 2018, when one of the three sisters divulged the abuse to her father, who called the police. On appeal, the Defendant challenges the sufficiency of the convicting evidence and argues that the State violated Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S 83 (1973), “by failing to produce information concerning the pending investigation of a male family member for sexual abuse crimes against some of the same family group.”2 Based on our review, we affirm the judgments of the trial court.

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