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STATE OF TENNESSEE v. JOSEPH MCDOWELL

Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Apr 17, 2026

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1: Joshua V. Lehde, Public Defender Fellow, Tennessee District Public Defenders Conference (on appeal); and David W. MacNeill (at trial), Chattanooga, Tennessee, for the appellant, Joseph E. McDowell.

Attorneys 2: Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter; Ronald L. Coleman, Senior Assistant Attorney General; Coty Wamp, District Attorney General; and Stephani Brown and Miller Leonard, Assistant District Attorneys General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): DYER

The defendant, Joseph McDowell, was convicted by a Hamilton County jury of two counts of sexual battery by an authority figure. The trial court imposed a sentence of six years’ incarceration in the first count and six years’ probation in the second count, to be served consecutively. On appeal, the defendant argues that the trial court erred in 1) denying his motion to exclude his statements concerning his sexuality and 2) ordering his sentences be served consecutively. Following a thorough review of the record, the briefs, and oral arguments of the parties, we affirm the judgments of the trial court.

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