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STATE OF TENNESSEE v. LACY FRANK WALLS, III

Posted by: Azya Thornton on Apr 2, 2026

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1: Travis B. Jones, District Public Defender; Teresa Brewer Campbell, Assistant Public Defender (at trial), and Brennan M. Wingerter, Assistant Public Defender – Appellate Director (on appeal), for the appellant, Lacy Frank Walls, III.

Attorneys 2: Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter; Caroline Weldon, Assistant Attorney General; Brent Cooper, District Attorney General; and Hunter Knight, Assistant District Attorney General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): EASTER

Lacy Frank Walls, III, Defendant, was convicted of evading arrest and three counts of possession of a firearm after being convicted of a felony. The trial court sentenced Defendant to an effective sentence of forty years in incarceration. After the denial of a motion for new trial, Defendant appeals, arguing that the trial court refused to consider all of the issues presented in his motion for new trial. After a review, we find the trial court erred by refusing to consider all the issues presented in the motion for new trial. On remand, the trial court should hold a new hearing on the motion for new trial, at which the trial court should consider all the issues in the motion. The trial court should also enter judgment forms for Counts Four and Five and enter corrected judgment forms in Counts One, Two, and Six, reflecting Defendant was convicted after a jury trial and the proper statute under which Defendant is required to serve eighty-five percent of his sentence.

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