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STATE OF TENNESSEE v. TERESA SUMPTER

Posted by: Karen Belcher on Mar 30, 2022

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1: Ramon Damas, Memphis, Tennessee, for the appellant, Teresa Sumpter.

Attorneys 2: Herbert H. Slatery III, Attorney General and Reporter; T. Austin Watkins, Senior Assistant Attorney General; Amy P. Weirich, District Attorney General; and Byron Winsett and Dennis Johnson, Assistant District Attorneys General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): DYER

A Shelby County jury convicted the defendant, Teresa Sumpter, for the Class A felony of theft of property valued over $250,000 and for the Class B felony of money laundering. The trial court imposed an effective sentence of sixty years to be served in the Tennessee Department of Correction and ordered the defendant pay $373,412.77 in restitution. The defendant filed this timely appeal, challenging the evidence supporting her theft conviction and the trial court’s ruling allowing the defendant’s prior theft convictions to be entered into evidence. Following our review, we affirm the judgments of the trial court.

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