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STATE OF TENNESSEE v. JERRY IRVE BUCKNER a/k/a JERRY IRVIN BUCKNER

Posted by: Azya Thornton on Mar 21, 2025

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1: Jay Umerley (on appeal) and Nathan Cate (at trial), Nashville, Tennessee, for the appellant, Jerry Buckner.

Attorneys 2: Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter; Raymond J. Lepone, Assistant Attorney General; Glenn R. Funk, District Attorney General; and Kristen Stonehill and Doug Thurman, Assistant District Attorneys General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): MONTGOMERY

The Defendant, Jerry Buckner, was convicted by a Davidson County Criminal Court jury of second degree murder, a Class A felony, and unlawful possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, a Class B felony. See T.C.A. §§ 39-13-210 (2018) (second degree murder), 39-17-1307(b)(1)(A) (2018) (subsequently amended) (unlawful firearm possession). The trial court sentenced the Defendant to serve concurrent sentences of forty years for second degree murder and twenty years for the firearm possession. On appeal, he contends that the evidence is insufficient to support his convictions and that the trial court erred in declining to instruct the jury on the defense of self-defense. We affirm the judgments of the trial court and remand for correction of a clerical error on the judgment for the firearm conviction.

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