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STATE OF TENNESSEE v. JOHN EDWARD ROACH

Posted by: Azya Thornton on Feb 20, 2025

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1: M. Todd Ridley, Assistant Public Defender – Appellate Division (on appeal); Tas Gardner, District Public Defender; Frankie Stanfill, Camden, Tennessee (at trial), for the appellant, John Edward Roach.

Attorneys 2: Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter; Katherine C. Redding, Senior Assistant Attorney General; Neil Thompson, District Attorney General; and Morgan Reynolds, Assistant District Attorney General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): MCMULLEN

The Defendant, John Edward Roach, was convicted by a Hardin County jury of three drug- related offenses for which he received an effective sentence of twenty years’ imprisonment. The sole issue presented for our review is whether the evidence is sufficient to support his conviction for possession of drug paraphernalia, a Class A misdemeanor. See Tenn. Code Ann. § 39-17-425 (a)(1)-(2). The Defendant argues that the State failed to establish (1) that the items seized from the search of his home constituted drug paraphernalia and (2) that the Defendant intended to use any of the seized items for an illicit purpose. Upon our review, we affirm.

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