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STATE OF TENNESSEE v. JEFFERY DEWAYNE STRONG

Posted by: Tanja Trezise on Feb 26, 2021

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1: Eric L. Phillips (on appeal and at trial) and Adam W. Parrish (at trial), Lebanon, Tennessee, for the appellant, Jeffery Dewayne Strong.

Attorneys 2: Herbert H. Slatery III, Attorney General and Reporter; Ruth Anne Thompson, Senior Assistant Attorney General; Tom P. Thompson, Jr., District Attorney General; and Jason Lawson, Assistant District Attorney General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): OGLE

A Macon County Criminal Court Jury convicted the Appellant, Jeffery Dewayne Strong, of selling a Schedule III, controlled substance, a Class D felony, and the trial court sentenced him as a Range III, persistent offender to twelve years in confinement. On appeal, the Appellant contends that the evidence is insufficient to support the conviction and that the trial court erred by allowing the State to play an audio recording of the controlled drug buy. Based upon the record and the parties’ briefs, we conclude that the evidence is sufficient to support the conviction and that the Appellant waived the issue regarding the audio recording because he failed to raise it in his motion for a new trial or at the hearing on the motion. Accordingly, the judgment of the trial court is affirmed.

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