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STATE OF TENNESSEE v. JONATHAN LOUIS NELSON

Posted by: Azya Thornton on Oct 29, 2025

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1: Jessica F. Butler, Assistant Public Defender-Appellate Division, Franklin, Tennessee (on appeal); and William C. Donaldson and Elizabeth Jones, Assistant District Public Defenders, Jonesborough, Tennessee (at trial), for the appellant, Jonathan Louis Nelson.

Attorneys 2: Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter; Ryan Dugan, Assistant Attorney General; Steven R. Finney, District Attorney General; and Robin Ray and Abby V. Wallace, Assistant District Attorneys General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): CAMPBELL

The Defendant, Jonathan Louis Nelson, was convicted by a Washington County Criminal Court jury of aggravated kidnapping, rape, three counts of aggravated rape, and aggravated assault, and was sentenced by the trial court to an effective term of forty years at 100% in the Tennessee Department of Correction. On appeal, the Defendant challenges the sufficiency of the evidence in support of his aggravated kidnapping and rape convictions and argues that the trial court erred in declining his request for a special jury instruction on the lack of consent as an essential element of aggravated rape. We affirm the judgments of the trial court.

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