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STATE OF TENNESSEE v. PAUL MICHAEL CHEAIRS

Posted by: Azya Thornton on Feb 5, 2025

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1: Michael E. Scholl, Memphis, Tennessee (at sentencing and on appeal), and Hal Dorsey (at trial) for the appellant, Paul Michael Cheairs.

Attorneys 2: Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter; William C. Lundy, Assistant Attorney General; Jody Pickens, District Attorney General; and Michelle Pugh and Brandley F. Champine, Assistant District Attorneys General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): AYERS

Defendant, Paul Michael Cheairs, was convicted by a Madison County jury of two counts of possession of marijuana with intent to sell and or deliver, two counts of possession of drug paraphernalia, one count of misdemeanor unlawful possession of a firearm, and one count of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. The trial court imposed an effective sentence of seventeen years. Defendant appeals, arguing that the evidence was insufficient to support his convictions and that the trial court erred in admitting a rap video made after the arrest, by allowing expert testimony from a lieutenant, and in sentencing. Upon our review of the entire record, the briefs of the parties, and the applicable law, we affirm the judgments of the trial court.

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