State of Tennessee v. Jeffrey Kristopher King and Kasey Lynn King

Jeffrey King (“Defendant J. King”) entered conditional guilty pleas in Rutherford County to one count of conspiracy to sell over seventy pounds of marijuana and one count of possessing over seventy pounds of marijuana; to several counts of felony marijuana offenses and several counts of money-laundering offenses in Davidson County; and to several counts of felony marijuana offenses, several counts of money-laundering offenses, and one count of a felony firearm offense in Sumner County.  Kasey King (“Defendant K. King”) (collectively “the Defendants”) entered conditional guilty pleas in Davidson County to two counts of felony marijuana offenses and two counts of money-laundering offenses; and to one count of a felony firearm offense and two counts of felony marijuana offenses in Sumner County.  These conditional guilty pleas were entered after the trial courts denied the Defendants’ motions to suppress evidence gleaned from wiretaps on several telephones.  Each of the Defendants reserved certified questions of law regarding the legality of the wiretaps and timely appealed.  This Court ordered that the appeals be consolidated.  We now consider the Defendants’ certified questions of law and hold that the trial courts did not err in denying the Defendants’ motions to suppress.  Accordingly, the Defendants are entitled to no relief from their pleas of guilt.  Therefore, we affirm the trial courts’ judgments and the Defendants’ convictions.