STATE OF TENNESSEE v. DONQUARIUS PERSON - Articles

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Posted by: Tanja Trezise on May 22, 2014

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1:

Harry E. Sayle III (on appeal) and Mary Katherine Kent and Paul Pera (at trial), Assistant District Public Defenders, for the appellant, Donquarius Person.

Attorneys 2:

Robert E. Cooper, Jr., Attorney General and Reporter; Benjamin A. Ball, Assistant Attorney General; Amy P. Weirich, District Attorney General; and Alanda Dwyer and Abby Wallace, Assistant District Attorneys General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): WITT

The defendant, Donquarius Person, appeals his Shelby County Criminal Court jury convictions of first degree murder, aggravated assault, and two counts of attempted first degree murder, challenging the admission of certain hearsay testimony that was admitted pursuant to the excited utterance exception and the sufficiency of the convicting evidence. Discerning no error, we affirm.

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