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STATE OF TENNESSEE v. JENNIFER LEIGH SEXTON

Posted by: Azya Thornton on Mar 31, 2026

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1: Tyler M. Caviness, Knoxville, Tennessee, for the appellant, Jennifer Leigh Sexton.

Attorneys 2: Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter; Lacy E. Wilber, Senior Assistant Attorney General; Charme P. Allen, District Attorney General; and Sean D. Bright and Amelia Hamilton, Assistant District Attorneys General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): CAMPBELL

The Defendant, Jennifer Leigh Sexton, was convicted in the Knox County Criminal Court of vehicular homicide by recklessness, a Class C felony; initiating a false report, a Class D felony; driving on a suspended license, a Class B misdemeanor; and following too closely, a Class C misdemeanor, and received an effective sentence of ten years in confinement. On appeal, the Defendant claims that (1) the trial court abused its discretion by admitting testimony from the State’s expert because the expert’s method of data collection was unreliable, (2) the trial court erred by failing to provide the Defendant’s requested special jury instructions, and (3) the evidence is insufficient to support the conviction of initiating a false report. Based on our review, we affirm the judgments of the trial court.

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