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STATE OF TENNESSEE v. LUCIAN A. CLEMMONS

Posted by: Azya Thornton on Dec 8, 2025

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1: Lucas B. Willoughby, Nashville, Tennessee, for the appellant, Lucian A. Clemmons.

Attorneys 2: Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter; Caroline Weldon, Assistant Attorney General; Jason L. Lawson, District Attorney General; and Tammy H. Meade and Laura E. Bush, Assistant District Attorneys General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): HIXSON

The Defendant, Lucian A. Clemmons, appeals from his convictions for first degree premeditated murder, aggravated assault, and reckless endangerment with a deadly weapon. On appeal, he asserts constitutional and evidentiary claims related to the trial court’s exclusion of prior statements he made to the lead detective following his arrest. Additionally, as to the murder conviction, the Defendant contends that it was error for the trial court to refuse to instruct the jury on self-defense and that the evidence was insufficient to support the jury’s verdict because the State failed to establish premeditation beyond a reasonable doubt. After review, we affirm the judgments of the trial court.

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