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STATE OF TENNESSEE v. CLIESHA D. TEDUNJAYE

Posted by: Azya Thornton on Apr 22, 2026

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1: Joshua V. Lehde (on appeal), Assistant Public Defender - Appellate Division; Jeremy Epperson (at trial), District Public Defender; and Caroline Ballentine and John Hamilton (at trial), Assistant District Public Defenders, for the appellant, Cliesha D. Tedunjaye.

Attorneys 2: Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter; Ronald L. Coleman, Senior Assistant Attorney General; Joshua R. Gilbert, Assistant Attorney General (pro hac vice); Jody S. Pickens, District Attorney General; and Allison P. Martin and Tyler F. Buckley, Assistant District Attorneys General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): CAMPBELL

The Defendant, Cliesha D. Tedunjaye, was convicted in the Madison County Circuit Court of driving under the influence (“DUI) and DUI per se, Class A misdemeanors; possessing a handgun while under the influence, a Class A misdemeanor; violating the open container law, a Class C misdemeanor; and failing to maintain her lane of travel, a Class C misdemeanor. After a sentencing hearing, the Defendant received an effective sentence of eleven months, twenty-nine days to be served as forty-eight hours in jail and the remainder on probation supervised by community corrections. On appeal, the Defendant claims that the evidence is insufficient to support her convictions of DUI, DUI per se, and possession of a handgun while under the influence because the State failed to prove her intoxication. Based upon our review, we affirm the judgments of the trial court.

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