State of Tennessee v. Terrance Antonio Cecil

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• holding that the omission of a jury instruction pursuant to State v. White, 262 S.W.3d 559 (Tenn. 2012) qualified as constitutional error
• holding that analysis of a White issue necessarily involves a harmless error analysis rather than an analysis of the sufficiency of the evidence
• recognizing that a trial court’s failure to instruct the jury on a material element of a charged offense is a constitutional error subject to constitutional harmless error analysis
• holding that the specific jury instruction in State v. White is applicable to pending actions on direct appeal at the time the opinion was filed, but not to collateral attacks
• holding that it was error for the Court of Criminal Appeals -8- to conduct a sufficiency of the evidence analysis without first determining whether the absence of the White instruction was harmless error
• stating that on appeal to the Court of Criminal Appeals, the defendant in Cecil “challenged the sufficiency of the evidence”

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