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STATE OF TENNESSEE v. THOMAS MACK ARNOLD

Posted by: Azya Thornton on May 8, 2025

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1: Craig Fickling, District Public Defender; Joseph T. Wyatt (on appeal), Assistant District Public Defender; and Robert L. Marlow (at trial), Shelbyville, Tennessee, for the appellant, Thomas Mack Arnold.

Attorneys 2: Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter; Garrett D. Ward, Senior Assistant Attorney General; Bryant C. Dunaway, District Attorney General; and Philip Hatch and Allison Null, Assistant District Attorneys General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): HOLLOWAY

Defendant, Thomas Mack Arnold, appeals as of right from his conviction for first degree premeditated murder, for which he is serving a life sentence. On appeal, Defendant contends that the evidence is insufficient to support his conviction and that the prosecutor made improper statements during the State’s rebuttal argument such that a mistrial was necessary. After a thorough review of the evidence and applicable case law, we affirm.

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