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STATE OF TENNESSEE v. JOSEPH TRENT MCGREGOR

Posted by: Azya Thornton on May 11, 2026

Head Comment: CORRECTION: The opinion file was corrected.

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1: Terry J. Leonard, Camden, Tennessee, for the appellant, Joseph Trent McGregor.

Attorneys 2: Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter; William C. Lundy, Assistant Attorney General; Neil Thompson, District Attorney General; and Michael Thorne, Assistant District Attorney General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): CAMPBELL

The Defendant, Joseph Trent McGregor, was convicted by a Carroll County Circuit Court jury of evading arrest, a Class E felony; and resisting arrest, a Class B misdemeanor; and was sentenced by the trial court as a Range II offender to an effective term of four years in the Tennessee Department of Correction. The Defendant raises a single issue in this appeal: whether the trial court erred in refusing the Defendant’s request for special jury instructions on pretextual stops, unlawful detentions, and attempted unlawful arrests. We conclude that the Defendant has waived our consideration of the issue based on the inadequacy of his brief, which fails to provide any meaningful argument or appropriate references to the record. Accordingly, we affirm the judgments of the trial court.

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