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STATE OF TENNESSEE v. RAYMOND BENSON

Posted by: Azya Thornton on Jan 23, 2026

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1: Phyllis Aluko, District Public Defender; Barry W. Kuhn (on appeal), and Constance Barnes and Devarius Minor (at trial), Assistant Public Defenders, for the appellant, Raymond Benson.

Attorneys 2: Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter; Benjamin A. Ball, Senior Assistant Attorney General; Steven J. Mulroy, District Attorney General; and Kevin McAlpin and Lauren Hutton, Assistant District Attorneys General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): DYER

The defendant, Raymond Benson, was convicted by a Shelby County Criminal Court jury of reckless homicide and convicted felon in possession of a handgun for which he received an effective sentence of four years suspended to supervised probation. On appeal, the defendant argues that the evidence is insufficient to sustain his conviction for reckless homicide and asserts that the trial court erred in denying his motion to impeach a State’s witness with prior convictions. Following our review of the record, the parties’ briefs, and the applicable law, we affirm the judgments of the trial court.

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