STATE v. GRAHAM

No. W2012-00735-CCA-R3-CD.

STATE OF TENNESSEE, v. FRANK GRAHAM.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee, at Jackson.

Filed May 31, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul J. Springer and Edward Bronsten , Memphis, Tennessee, for the appellant, Frank Graham.

Robert E. Cooper, Jr. , Attorney General & Reporter; J. Ross Dyer , Senior Counsel; Amy P. Weirich , District Attorney General; and Jennifer Nichols and Patience Branham , Assistant District Attorneys General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

JOHN EVERETT WILLIAMS, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which ALAN E. GLENN and JEFFREY S. BIVINS, J.J., joined.


OPINION

JOHN EVERETT WILLIAMS, Judge.

A jury convicted the defendant, Frank Graham,1 of the first degree premeditated murder of his ex-fiancee, Taffi Crawford. The defendant received a life sentence. On appeal, the defendant contests the sufficiency of the evidence establishing premeditation. He also asserts that the trial court erred in refusing to suppress the statement he gave police, in which he acknowledged having accidentally...

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