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STATE OF TENNESSEE v. DANTERRIO DEVONTA POPLAR

Posted by: Azya Thornton on Jun 17, 2026

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1: Terrell L. Tooten (at trial and on appeal), Dee Shawn Peoples (at trial), Memphis, Tennessee, for the appellant, Danterrio Devonta Poplar.

Attorneys 2: Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter; William C. Lundy, Assistant Attorney General; Mark Davidson, District Attorney General; and Joe VanDyke, Assistant District Attorney General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): GREENHOLTZ

A Hardeman County jury convicted the Defendant, Danterrio Devonta Poplar, of evading arrest in a motor vehicle while creating a risk of death or injury to others. The trial court imposed a three-year sentence, with 75 days of incarceration and the balance to be served on supervised probation. On appeal, the Defendant argues that the prosecutor improperly vouched for the credibility of law enforcement witnesses during voir dire and rebuttal closing argument and that the trial court should have given a curative instruction following the prosecutor’s statement. Upon our review, we respectfully affirm the judgment of the trial court.

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