TENNESSEE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS
May 29, 2026OUTCOME: REVERSED AND REMANDED
In a highly rare and nearly unprecedented appellate victory, the Mr. MacNeill successfully overturned an Attempted First-Degree Murder conviction by exposing severe constitutional violations committed ... by the State. While appellate courts overwhelmingly defer to trial court rulings and uphold convictions, the defense aggressively litigated the structural and constitutional defects emerging from a violation of the client’s Sixth Amendment right to counsel, securing a monumental reversal of a Attempted First Degree Murder conviction and twenty-year sentence . This victory establishes Mr. MacNeill’s abiity to successfully overcome the awesome power of the state not just in the trial well, but at the highest levels of the appellate courts.
