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STATE OF TENNESSEE v. JOHN MARK HALL

Posted by: Azya Thornton on Aug 19, 2025

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1: D. David Sexton, II, and Rex J. White, Jr., (on appeal and at motion for new trial hearing); and David Eldridge (at trial), Knoxville, Tennessee, for the appellant, John Mark Hall.

Attorneys 2: Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter; Benjamin L. Barker, Assistant Attorney General; Charme P. Allen, District Attorney General; and Joe Welker and Sean Roberts, Assistant District Attorneys General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): SWORD

The Defendant, John Mark Hall, appeals his Knox County jury conviction of domestic assault, for which he received a sentence of eleven months and twenty-nine days on unsupervised probation after service of 192 hours in jail. On appeal, the Defendant contends that the State committed prosecutorial misconduct during closing arguments, that the sufficiency and weight of the evidence was lacking, and that the trial court erred by failing to rule on his renewed motion for judgment of acquittal pursuant to Tennessee Rule of Criminal Procedure 29. Discerning no error, we affirm.

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