STATE OF TENNESSEE v. JOSHUA TERELLE GAINES - Articles

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Posted by: Azya Thornton on Aug 8, 2025

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1: Daniel J. Murphy (on appeal), Lewisburg, Tennessee, and J. Caleb Cassell (at trial), Nashville, Tennessee, for the appellant, Joshua Terelle Gaines.

Attorneys 2: Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter; Ryan Dugan, Assistant Attorney General; Glenn R. Funk, District Attorney General; and Deborah Housel and J. Wesley King, Assistant District Attorneys General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): CAMPBELL

The Defendant, Joshua Terelle Gaines, was convicted in the Davidson County Criminal Court of first degree felony murder, second degree murder, especially aggravated robbery, and being a felon in possession of a firearm after having been convicted of a felony drug offense and received an effective sentence of life plus five years in confinement. On appeal, the Defendant claims that the trial court erred by redacting his psychological expert’s report and by limiting the expert’s testimony. Based upon our review, we affirm the judgments of the trial court.

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