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STATE OF TENNESSEE v. CARMELO GONZALEZ-FONESCA

Posted by: Chandra Williams on Jul 21, 2016

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1:

David Harris (on appeal) and M. Oliver Osemwegie (at trial), Nashville, Tennessee, for the appellant, Carmelo Gonzalez-Fonesca.

Attorneys 2:

Herbert H. Slatery III, Attorney General and Reporter; Caitlin Smith, Assistant Attorney General; Glenn R. Funk, District Attorney General; and Amy Hunter, Assistant District Attorney General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): EASTER

This is Defendant’s, Carmelo Gonzalez-Fonesca’s, direct appeal from his convictions by a jury of one count of possession of 150 grams or more of heroin with the intent to sell or distribute and one count of possession of drug paraphernalia with the intent to prepare and package a controlled substance. As a result, he was sentenced to an effective sentence of fifteen years in incarceration as a Range I, standard offender. Defendant appeals, challenging the sufficiency of the evidence, the expert testimony of Sergeant Gene Donegan, and the chain of custody with respect to the evidence. After a review, we affirm the judgments of the trial court.

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