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STATE OF TENNESSEE v. GREGORY LIVINGSTON

Posted by: Azya Thornton on Jul 30, 2025

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1: Phyllis Aluko, Shelby County Public Defender; and Barry W. Kuhn and Tony Brayton, Assistant Shelby County Public Defenders (on appeal); Leslie Ballin, Memphis, Tennessee (at trial); and Steven Farese, Ashland, Mississippi (at trial), for the appellant, Gregory Livingston.

Attorneys 2: Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter; Ronald L. Coleman, Senior Assistant Attorney General; Glenn R. Funk, District Attorney General Pro Tem; and David Jones and Ronald Dowdy, Assistant District Attorneys General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): WILSON

A Shelby County jury convicted Defendant, Gregory Livingston, of first degree premeditated murder for which he received a sentence of life imprisonment. On appeal, Defendant challenges (1) the sufficiency of the evidence supporting the conviction; (2) the admission of the autopsy report prepared by a non-testifying forensic examiner and testimony from a medical examiner who did not conduct the autopsy; (3) the admission of a video recording from a police officer’s body camera showing the victim’s girlfriend crying following the shooting; and (4) the admission of Defendant’s statement that he previously killed others. Upon review, we affirm.

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