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STATE OF TENNESSEE v. BRANDON E. BANKS

Posted by: Karen Belcher on Oct 4, 2019

Head Comment: With concurring and dissenting opinion by OGLE

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1:

Mark Scruggs, Katie Hagan, Richard McGee, and Kevin McGee, Nashville, Tennessee, for the appellant, Brandon Eric Banks.

Attorneys 2:

Herbert H. Slatery III, Attorney General and Reporter; James E. Gaylord, Senior Assistant Attorney General; Glenn Funk, District Attorney General; and Roger Moore and Jan Norman, Assistant District Attorneys General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): DYER

A Davidson County grand jury indicted the defendant, Brandon E. Banks, for five counts of aggravated rape and two counts of aggravated sexual battery. After trial, a jury convicted the defendant of one count of each offense. On appeal, the defendant challenges the trial court’s denial of his motion to suppress evidence obtained from a warrantless search of his cell phone, the sufficiency of the evidence supporting his conviction for aggravated rape, and several of the trial court’s evidentiary rulings. After a thorough review of the record and applicable law, we affirm the judgments of the trial court.

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