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STATE OF TENNESSEE v. MICHAEL DUNFORD

Posted by: Tanja Trezise on Mar 19, 2025

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1: Dillon E. Zinser (at motion for new trial and on appeal) and Julia Anna Trent (at trial and sentencing), Knoxville, Tennessee, for the appellant, Michael Dunford.

Attorneys 2: Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter; Lacy E. Wilber, Senior Assistant Attorney General; Charme P. Allen, District Attorney General; and Deborah H. Malone and Willie Lane, Assistant District Attorneys General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): HOLLOWAY

Defendant, Michael Dunford, appeals as of right from his jury convictions for two counts of aggravated robbery and two counts of aggravated kidnapping, for which he received an effective sentence of fifteen years. On appeal, Defendant contends that the evidence was insufficient to prove his identity as the perpetrator and that the trial court erred by imposing a longer sentence than the minimum in-range sentence of twelve years. Following our review, we affirm.

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