RUTHERFORD COUNTY, TENN. – The Tennessee Supreme Court has denied an appeal filed by Marcus Willingham, who was convicted in the Rutherford County Courtroom of the now retired Judge David Bragg. Willingham was convicted by a jury in 2019 on ten counts of rape of a child and two counts of solicitation of sexual exploitation of a child. He received an effective sentence of thirty years’ incarceration.
In Willingham's appeal, he claimed the trial court made an error in a .