State of Tennessee v. James Elvis Presley

Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals (East) · October 30, 2025

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The Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee is in session for its October docket, with four cases scheduled for the day.

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Oral argument in the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals (Eastern Section) on an appeal of the trial courts sua sponte grant of a new trial to James Elvis Presley. Attorneys for the State and the defendant debated whether the trial court applied the correct legal standard under Rule 33 and whether newly produced testimony from the autopsy physician, Dr. William Oliver, is likely to change the outcome. The panel questioned counsel about whether the evidence is merely impeachment, cumulative, or independently dispositive and whether it could change the mens rea finding from knowing murder to reckless homicide.

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