The Truth Shall Set Us Free Donyell Dewayne Holland My Story, On the Record
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Chapter 6

2021 to 2024: 1,154 Days Waiting for Trial

In my words

I was arrested March 17, 2021. My trial started May 14, 2024. I asked for a speedy trial in writing, more than once. Here is what the docket shows.

Donyell Dewayne Holland

What the docket shows, date by date

  1. April 14, 2021Attorney Ryan Wheeler appointed.Rule docket
  2. July 13, 2021Order denying Donyell’s pro se motion for discovery and exculpatory evidence.Rule docket
  3. September 22, 2021Order denying his pro se motion to dismiss.Rule docket
  4. January 11, 2022Pro se motion for speedy trial or, in the alternative, dismissal, filed. No ruling entry on the docket.Rule docket
  5. October 5, 2022State’s motion to continue. Granted October 21, 2022. The November 8, 2022 trial date is lost.Rule docket
  6. January 13, 2023Second pro se motion for speedy trial or dismissal, filed. No ruling entry on the docket.Rule docket
  7. April 28, 2023Case set for “status of TBI labs.”Rule docket
  8. May 15, 2023State’s second motion for continuance granted. The May 23, 2023 trial date is lost.Order
  9. August 3, 2023Wheeler withdraws; Elizabeth Roderick appointed. The August 29, 2023 trial date is lost.Rule docket
  10. October 4, 2023Roderick withdraws; David MacNeill appointed.Rule docket
  11. Oct. 2023 to Jan. 2024Donyell’s pro se motions marked “received, forwarded to defense attorney.”Rule docket
  12. March 6, 2024Fifth pretrial order moves trial from March 26 to May 14, 2024.Rule docket
  13. May 10, 2024Pro se motion challenging prolonged pretrial confinement filed and denied the same day, four days before trial.Rule docket

Court papers from these years

Pretrial orderFourth pretrial orderOrder for funds and preparation of transcriptsDonyell’s handwritten pro se motion, case 311081More of his pro se motionsTrial court orders

The full trial court docket, case 317210

Printed January 28, 2026. Date of birth blacked out.

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In pictures

More than 80 of his motions were never ruled on. A stack of motions to suppress, dismiss, discovery, speedy trial, self-representation, bill of particulars and more sits beside a stack stamped NO RULING in front of Judge Amanda B. Dunn.
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A system of mistakes. Investigation built a false narrative: police led witnesses to specific stories, key witnesses pressured, exculpatory evidence ignored, evidence mislabeled; Chris Johnson told CPD people had been in his house and he thinks it was police, and died two weeks before trial. Trial court, multiple critical errors: denied speedy trial, superseding indictment one month before trial, denied continuance, denied self-representation, off-record 38:53 gap, sentencing range errors, conflicted hybrid counsel, judgment and minute mismatch, Brady violations, juror texting during trial, no bill of particulars. Appeals court, continued mistakes: incomplete record, remand not fully enforced, Brady demands mooted, judgment errors overlooked. Donyell still in prison, but he still fights for freedom.
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Write to Donyell

Donyell Dewayne Holland · TDOC #248453
Morgan County Correctional Complex, Wartburg, Tennessee

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Send a letter: Morgan County Correctional Complex · Donyell Holland #248453 · P.O. Box 247, Phoenix, MD 21131. That is the Tennessee prison system’s official mail address. Your letter is scanned and delivered to him.

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