STATE v. COFFEY

No. E2011-00192-CCA-R3-CD.

STATE OF TENNESSEE, v. JOHNNY COFFEY.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee.

Filed February 6, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Matthew C. Rogers and Randy Rogers , Athens, Tennessee, for the appellant, Johnny Coffey.

Robert E. Cooper, Jr. , Attorney General and Reporter; Renee W. Turner , Assistant Attorney General; R. Steven Bebb , District Attorney General; and Aubrey Wayne Carter and Cynthia Lecroy-Schemel , Assistant District Attorneys General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

JAMES CURWOOD WITT, JR., J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which D. KELLY THOMAS, JR., and CAMILLE R. McMULLEN, JJ., joined.


OPINION

JAMES CURWOOD WITT, Jr., J.

The defendant, Johnny Coffey, appeals his Bradley County Circuit Court jury conviction of second degree murder, claiming that the trial court erred by denying him funds to procure additional expert assistance, by denying his request to play witness statements in their entireties, by refusing to grant his motion for a mistrial, by denying his request for a jury instruction on self-defense, and by failing to apply certain...

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