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STATE OF TENNESSEE v. WESLEY ALLEN LACEY

Posted by: Azya Thornton on Apr 24, 2026

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1: Gerald L. Gulley, Jr. (on appeal); and Michael T. Cabage (at trial) Knoxville, Tennessee, for the appellant, Wesley Allen Lacey.

Attorneys 2: Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter; Lacy E. Wilber, Senior Assistant Attorney General; Charme P. Allen, District Attorney General; and Greg Eshbaugh and Teddy Ryan, Assistant District Attorneys General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): EASTER

Wesley Allen Lacey, Defendant, was charged in a presentment by the Knox County Grand Jury with one count of second degree murder and one count of delivery of fentanyl in an amount less than fifteen grams. A jury found Defendant guilty of second degree murder and casual exchange. As a result, he was sentenced to fifteen years to be served at 100% for the second degree murder conviction and eleven months and twenty-nine days for the casual exchange conviction, to be served concurrently, for a total effective sentence of fifteen years in incarceration. After the denial of a motion for new trial, Defendant appealed challenging the sufficiency of the evidence to support the conviction for second degree murder and the admission of testimony from a medical examiner who did not perform the autopsy of the victim. Following a thorough review, we affirm the judgments of the trial court.

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