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STATE OF TENNESSEE v. SHAQUIL MURPHY

Posted by: Tanja Trezise on May 1, 2023

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1: Joshua Headrick, Knoxville, Tennessee (at trial and on appeal), for the appellant, Shaquil Murphy.

Attorneys 2: Herbert H. Slatery III, Attorney General and Reporter; Garrett D. Ward, Assistant Attorney General; Charme P. Allen, District Attorney General; and Heather Good and Ta Kisha Fitzgerald, Assistant District Attorneys General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): CAMPBELL

The Defendant, Shaquil Murphy, was convicted by a Knox County Criminal Court jury of attempted first degree premeditated murder, attempted second degree murder, unlawful possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, two counts of aggravated assault, and two counts of employing a firearm during the commission of a dangerous felony. On appeal, the Defendant challenges the sufficiency of the evidence for the attempted murder and employing a firearm convictions and argues that the trial court erred by not dismissing the employing a firearm counts of the indictment and by including duty to retreat language in the jury instruction on self-defense. Based on our review, we affirm the judgments of the trial court.

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