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STATE OF TENNESSEE v. MAURICE HARRIS

Posted by: Azya Thornton on Feb 13, 2026

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1: Tony N. Brayton, Assistant Public Defender-Appellate Division (on appeal); Leslie Ballin, Memphis, Tennessee (at trial), for the appellant, Maurice Harris.

Attorneys 2: Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter; Ronald L. Coleman, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Joshua R. Gilbert, Assistant Attorney General (pro hac vice); Steve Mulroy, District Attorney General; and Tanisha Johnson, Assistant District Attorney General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): MCMULLEN

A Shelby County jury convicted the Defendant of one count of rape of a child. By consent of the parties, the trial court sentenced the Defendant as a standard offender to twenty-five years’ incarceration, to be served at one hundred percent. In this direct appeal, the Defendant contends that the evidence is not sufficient to support his conviction and that the trial court erred in limiting his cross-examination of one of the prosecution witnesses. We affirm the judgment of the trial court.

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