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Appellate panel hears challenge to Markelle Nolan’s drug conviction over evidence and counsel fitness
Summary
An appellate panel at the University of Memphis Law School heard arguments in State v. Markelle Nolan, where defense counsel urged reversal for insufficient evidence that Nolan knew drugs in a borrowed car and argued trial counsel’s alleged incapacity and later disbarment warranted a new trial; the court took the case under advisement.
A three-judge panel heard oral argument in State of Tennessee v. Markelle Nolan on an appeal that challenges both the legal sufficiency of evidence linking Nolan to methamphetamine found in the trunk of a borrowed car and whether his trial lawyer provided constitutionally effective representation.
Bridal Wingerter, a public defender from the appellate division representing Nolan, told the panel the appeal raises two issues: “the legal sufficiency of the evidence and the other is the ineffective assistance of trial counsel.” She described a Jackson traffic stop and a trunk search that produced two plastic baggies of methamphetamine and stressed that Nolan was driving a vehicle belonging to his stepfather and had a 12-year-old passenger…
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