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STATE OF TENNESSEE v. MICHAEL MALIK TASHAW BROWN

Posted by: Azya Thornton on Aug 19, 2025

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1: Joshua L. Lehde, Public Defender Fellow-Appellate Division, Franklin, Tennessee (on appeal), and Tyler Graham and Parker Dixon, Assistant Public Defenders, Jackson, Tennessee (at trial), for the appellant, Michael Malik Tashaw Brown.

Attorneys 2: Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter; J. Katie Neff and Ronald L. Coleman, Assistant Attorneys General; Jody Pickens, District Attorney General; and Tyler Ford Buckley, Assistant District Attorney General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): CAMPBELL

The Defendant, Michael Malik Tashaw Brown, was convicted by a Madison County Circuit Court jury of filing a false police report, possession of marijuana, and leaving the scene of an accident. On appeal, he argues that the trial court erred in admitting irrelevant and prejudicial evidence about a shotgun found in his vehicle, and that the State failed to establish that he possessed illegal marijuana rather than legal hemp. Based on our review, we affirm the judgments of the trial court.

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