State of Tennessee v. Joshua Iceman

The Defendant, Joshua Iceman, was convicted by a jury of aggravated child abuse and first degree felony murder, for which he received concurrent terms of eighteen years and life imprisonment, respectively. The Defendant appeals, arguing (1) that his statement at the hospital resulted from custodial interrogation given without proper Miranda warnings and, therefore, that statement should have been suppressed; (2) that the State experts’ testimony on “shaken-baby syndrome and/or non-accidental trauma” was not sufficiently reliable to warrant its admission; (3) that the evidence was insufficient to support his convictions because the jury was faced with conflicting expert testimony; and (4) that the trial court erred in enhancing his sentencing term for his aggravated child abuse conviction above the minimum in the Class A felony range. Following our review of the record, we affirm the judgments of the trial court.