STATE OF TENNESSEE v. LACORIOUS TYQUEZ FULLER - Articles

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Posted by: Azya Thornton on Sep 19, 2024

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1: Jessica Fay Butler, Assistant Public Defender – Appellate Division (on appeal); Gerald L. Melton, District Public Defender; and Benjamin Ray Wetsell and Brittney Hollis, Assistant District Public Defenders (at trial), for the appellant, Lacorious Tyquez Fuller.

Attorneys 2: Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter; Ronald L. Coleman, Senior Assistant Attorney General; Jennings H. Jones, District Attorney General; and Eric Farmer and Matthew Westmoreland, Assistant District Attorneys General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): EASTER

Defendant, Lacorious Tyquez Fuller, appeals his Rutherford County Circuit Court conviction for conspiracy to deliver more than 150 grams of heroin, for which he received a sentence of 17 years’ incarceration. On appeal, Defendant challenges the sufficiency of the convicting evidence and the trial court’s admission of a video recording of a controlled purchase between Defendant and two confidential informants. Finding no reversible error, we affirm the judgment of the trial court.

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