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STATE OF TENNESSEE v. MARQUEZ L. MAXWELL

Posted by: Azya Thornton on Mar 3, 2026

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1: Jake Dagostino, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, (on appeal); Michael Freeman, Nashville, Tennessee, (at trial), for the appellant, Marquez L. Maxwell.

Attorneys 2: Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter; Elizabeth Evan, Assistant Attorney General; Jennings Jones, District Attorney General; and Hugh Ammerman, Assistant District Attorney General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): SWORD

The Defendant, Marquez L. Maxwell, was convicted by a Rutherford County Circuit Court jury of one count of rape of a child. The trial court entered judgment ordering the Defendant to serve a thirty-year sentence at one hundred percent service, with community supervision for life following the expiration of his sentence. On appeal, the Defendant claims that the evidence is insufficient to support his conviction and that the trial court erred by failing to answer a jury question about its ability to reach a verdict and by simply administering a Kersey v. State, 525 S.W.2d 139, 144-45 (Tenn. 1975) instruction to the jury. Following our review, we affirm the judgment of the trial court.

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