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STATE OF TENNESSEE v. BRYAN RAY DUDLEY

Posted by: Azya Thornton on Oct 31, 2025

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1: Gregory M. O’Neal, Winchester, Tennessee, for the appellant, Bryan Ray Dudley.

Attorneys 2: Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter; Ryan W. Davis, Assistant Attorney General; Courtney Lynch, District Attorney General; and Steve Strain, Kandi Nunley, and Casey Little, Assistant District Attorneys General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): SWORD

The Defendant, Bryan Ray Dudley, appeals his Franklin County Circuit Court convictions of first degree premeditated murder, first degree felony murder, and two counts of especially aggravated kidnapping, for which he received an effective sentence of life plus thirty-five years’ incarceration. On appeal, the Defendant challenges the sufficiency of the convicting evidence and argues the trial court erred by admitting evidence of his suicide attempt following the victim’s murder and by neglecting to instruct the jury regarding proximate causation. Because we conclude that both the Defendant’s motion for a new trial and notice of appeal were untimely filed and that the interests of justice do not merit the waiver of the untimeliness of the Defendant’s notice of appeal, we dismiss the appeal.

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