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STATE OF TENNESSEE v. TRACE LEE MASON

Posted by: Azya Thornton on Oct 16, 2025

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1: Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter; Courtney Nicole Orr, Deputy Attorney General; Garrett D. Ward, Senior Assistant Attorney General; Stephen M. Hatchett, District Attorney General; and Aaron J. Chaplin and April D. Romeo, Assistant District Attorneys General, for the appellant, State of Tennessee.

Attorneys 2: Kendall Stivers Jones, Assistant Public Defender – Appellate Division, Franklin, Tennessee (on appeal); and Larry Wright, Assistant Public Defender, Cleveland, Tennessee (at hearings), for the appellee, Trace Mason.

Judge(s): DYER

The State appeals the trial court’s order granting the defendant’s motion to dismiss the five- count indictment against him on denial of speedy trial grounds. Following a thorough review of the record, the briefs, and oral arguments of the parties, we reverse the trial court’s grant of the defendant’s motion to dismiss, reinstate the indictments against the defendant, and remand to the trial court for further proceedings.

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