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STATE OF TENNESSEE v. MARKREO QUINTEZ SPRINGER and WILLIAM MOZELL COLEY

Posted by: Tanja Trezise on Jun 20, 2014

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1:

Rob McKinney, Nashville, Tennessee, for the appellant, Markreo Quintez Springer.

Attorneys 2:

Ana Escobar (at trial) and Peter D. Heil (on appeal), Nashville, Tennessee, for the appellant, William Mozell Coley.

Robert E. Cooper, Jr., Attorney General and Reporter; Rachel Harmon, Senior Counsel; Victor S. Johnson, District Attorney General; and Rob McGuire and Sarah Davis, Assistant District Attorneys General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): WILLIAMS

A jury convicted the defendants, Markreo Quintez Springer and William Mozell Coley, of first degree (felony) murder; second degree murder, a Class A felony; and especially aggravated robbery, a Class A felony. On appeal, the defendants launch challenges against: (1) the sufficiency of the evidence; (2) the admission of a witness’s recorded prior inconsistent statement; (3) the chain of custody for DNA evidence; (4) the admission into evidence of a recording of the defendants discussing the events in the back of a police vehicle; (5) the exclusion of a recorded statement from a deceased witness; (6) the admission of testimony regarding threats against a witness made by one of the defendants; and (7) the trial court’s refusal to grant a severance. After a thorough review of the record and issues raised, we affirm the judgments of the trial court.

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