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STATE OF TENNESSEE v. DARRIN KEITH WARD

Posted by: Karen Belcher on Jun 13, 2022

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1: H. Tod Taylor, Dyersburg, Tennessee, for the appellant, Darrin Keith Ward.

Attorneys 2: Herbert H. Slatery III, Attorney General and Reporter; Jonathan H. Wardle, Assistant Attorney General; Danny Goodman, Jr., District Attorney General; and Lance Webb, Assistant District Attorney General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): WITT

Aggrieved of his Dyer County Circuit Court jury convictions of possession with intent to sell or deliver more than 300 grams of cocaine and possession of a firearm with the intent to go armed during the commission of a dangerous felony, the defendant, Darrin Keith Ward, appeals, arguing that the trial court erred by failing to dismiss for cause a juror who was sleeping during trial and committed plain error by permitting a police officer to testify as an expert in narcotics trafficking. Discerning no error, we affirm.

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