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STATE OF TENNESSEE v. KARLUS MONTREZZ BRANCH

Posted by: Tanja Trezise on Feb 11, 2020

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1: David A. Collins, Nashville, Tennessee, for the Defendant-Appellant, Karlus M. Branch.

Attorneys 2: Herbert H. Slatery III, Attorney General and Reporter; Renee W. Turner, Senior Assistant Attorney General; Glenn Funk, District Attorney General; and Addie Askew, Assistant District Attorney General, for the Appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): MCMULLEN

A Davidson County Grand Jury indicted the Defendant-Appellant, Karlus Montrezz Branch, with first-degree premeditated murder, and he was later convicted of the lesser included offense of second-degree murder. The Defendant received an effective sentence of twenty-nine years imprisonment. In this appeal as of right, the Defendant raises the following issues for our review: (1) whether the evidence is sufficient as a matter of law to support the Defendant’s conviction for second degree murder, and (2) whether the Defendant is entitled to plain error review of the trial court’s admissions of statements made by Tierra Braden as excited utterances, and whether these admissions violated the Confrontation Clause. Upon our review, we affirm the judgments of the trial court.

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