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STATE OF TENNESSEE v. WILLIAM JOEL LAUPER

Posted by: Azya Thornton on Apr 16, 2025

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1: Christian T. Moore, Nashville, Tennessee (on appeal); Amanda J. Gentry, Nashville Tennessee, Christopher Henry Reynolds, Nashville, Tennessee (at trial), for the appellant, William Joel Lauper.

Attorneys 2: Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter; William C. Lundy, Assistant Attorney General; Jennings H. Jones, District Attorney General; and Sarah Davis and Allyson Abbot, Assistant District Attorneys General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): MCMULLEN

The Defendant, William Joel Lauper, was convicted by a Rutherford County Jury of especially aggravated kidnapping, four counts of aggravated assault, domestic assault resulting in a bodily injury, and preventing another from making an emergency call, for which he received an effective sentence of fifty years, eleven months, and twenty-nine days of confinement. In this direct appeal, the sole issue presented for our review is whether the State established the essential element of serious bodily injury to sustain the especially aggravated kidnapping conviction. After review, we affirm.

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