State of Tennessee v. Shatara Evette Jones

Syllabus

In this delayed appeal, Defendant, Shatara Evette Jones, appeals her conviction for first degree murder for which she received a mandatory life sentence. On appeal, Defendant challenges: 1) the trial court's restricting her right to cross-examine a State's witness 2) the trial court's denial of her motion to dismiss, pursuant to State v. Ferguson, based on the State's failure to preserve evidence 3) the trial court's denial of her motions to suppress her statement to police and cell phone data 4) the trial court's exclusion of evidence of the victim's gang involvement and a rap video in which he is depicted holding a gun 5) the trial court's omission of an instruction in the written jury instructions and 6) the sufficiency of the evidence of her conviction. We affirm the judgment of the trial court.