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STATE OF TENNESSEE v. JOSHUA DANIEL GIBBONS

Posted by: Azya Thornton on Jun 2, 2026

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1: Kendall Stivers Jones, Assistant Public Defender - Appellate Division (on appeal); Andrew J. Gibbons, Public Defender; and Timothy Horne, Assistant Public Defender (at trial), for the appellant, Joshua Daniel Gibbons.

Attorneys 2: Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter; Garrett D. Ward, Assistant Attorney General; Barry P. Staubus, District Attorney General; and Andrea Black and Alex Griffith, Assistant District Attorneys General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): WILSON

Defendant, Joshua Daniel Gibbons, appeals his Sullivan County Criminal Court jury conviction of disorderly conduct, arguing that the evidence was insufficient to support his conviction and that the trial court erred in its instructions to the jury. We find that the trial court erred by instructing the jury on a mode of disorderly conduct not included in the charging instrument and that, in any event, the evidence was insufficient to support Defendant’s conviction under either mode of liability charged to the jury. Accordingly, we reverse the judgment of the trial court and dismiss the charge.

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