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STATE OF TENNESSEE v. JAMAR LAQUINN FRAZIER

Posted by: Azya Thornton on Apr 3, 2025

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1: Melissa C. DiRado (at motion for new trial and on appeal), and Christopher M. Rodgers (at trial), Knoxville, Tennessee, for the appellant, Jamar Laquinn Frazier.

Attorneys 2: Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter; Abigail H. Rinard, Assistant Attorney General; Charme P. Allen, District Attorney General; and D. Lawrence Dillon, Hector I. Sanchez, and Danielle Jones, Assistant District Attorneys General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): HIXSON

The Defendant, Jamar Laquinn Frazier, appeals from his conviction for second degree murder following a jury trial. In this appeal, the Defendant claims that the trial court (1) denied him counsel of his choosing by denying his request to continue the trial date; (2) erred by allowing certain testimony at trial in violation of the law of the case doctrine and by allowing improper opinion, character, and hearsay testimony; and (3) erred by imposing the maximum twenty-five-year sentence. Additionally, the Defendant argues that he is entitled to a new trial (4) due to the denial of funding for an investigator during the motion for new trial proceedings and (5) due to cumulative error. After review, we affirm the judgment of the trial court.

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