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STATE OF TENNESSEE v. ROY DONALD COONS, JR.

Posted by: Karen Belcher on Jun 3, 2022

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1: Manuel B. Russ (on appeal) and David Hopkins (at trial), Nashville, Tennessee, for the appellant, Roy Donald Coons, Jr.

Attorneys 2: Herbert H. Slatery III, Attorney General and Reporter; Garrett D. Ward, Assistant Attorney General; Glenn Funk, District Attorney General; and Pamela Anderson and Jeff George, Assistant District Attorneys General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): DYER

A Davidson County jury convicted the defendant, Roy Donald Coons, Jr., of two counts of second-degree murder, one count of first-degree felony murder, one count of attempted rape of a child, and one count of aggravated criminal trespass, for which he received an effective sentence of life imprisonment plus twenty-five years. On appeal, the defendant argues the trial court erred in allowing the admission of the victim’s text messages, in permitting the State to introduce an excessive number of photographs of the victim, and in imposing consecutive sentences. The defendant also contends the evidence presented at trial was insufficient to support his convictions. After reviewing the record and considering the applicable law, we affirm the judgments of the trial court. However, we remand the case for corrected judgment forms in counts one and three. Tenn. R. App. P. 3 Appeal as of Right; Judgments of the

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