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STATE OF TENNESSEE v. RONALD MATTHEW LACY

Posted by: Azya Thornton on Apr 13, 2026

Court: TN Supreme Court

Attorneys 1: B. Isaac Gibson and John M. Gambrel, Pineville, Kentucky for the appellant, Ronald Matthew Lacy.

Attorneys 2: Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter, J. Matthew Rice, Solicitor General, Matthew D. Cloutier, Assistant Solicitor General, and William C. Lundy, Assistant Attorney General; L. Russell Johnson, District Attorney General; and Robert C. Edwards and Jed Bassett, Assistant District Attorneys General, for the appellee, the State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): CAMPBELL

Ronald Matthew Lacy was a luxury car middleman. In 2015, through a series of electronic communications sent from Kentucky, Lacy persuaded the owner of a car dealership in Tennessee to wire him funds for a Mercedes. But Lacy never delivered the Mercedes or returned the funds. In this appeal, we consider whether a Tennessee court had statutory territorial jurisdiction to convict Lacy of theft for that conduct. We conclude that it did. We further conclude that Lacy’s theft conviction was supported by sufficient evidence. We therefore uphold Lacy’s conviction and affirm the judgment of the Court of Criminal Appeals.

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