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STATE OF TENNESSEE v. ANTONIO GIPSON

Posted by: Tanja Trezise on Mar 19, 2025

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1: Joshua D. Hedrick (on appeal) and Mike Whalen (at trial), Knoxville, Tennessee, for the appellant, Antonio Gipson.

Attorneys 2: Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter; Garrett D. Ward, Senior Assistant Attorney General; Charme P. Allen, District Attorney General; and Sean F. McDermott and Kevin Allen, Assistant District Attorneys General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): GREENHOLTZ

A Knox County jury convicted the Defendant, Antonio Gipson, of second degree murder and unlawful possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, and the trial court imposed a sentence of forty years. On appeal, the Defendant argues that the evidence is legally insufficient to support his conviction for second degree murder. He also asserts that the trial court erred by (1) finding that prior threats made by the victim were hearsay; and (2) excluding a video of the victim displaying a firearm in the weeks before the shooting. Upon our review, we respectfully affirm the judgments of the trial court.

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