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IN THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS OF TENNESSEE
AT JACKSON
Assigned on Briefs July 10, 2007

STATE OF TENNESSEE v. CHARLES THOMAS LARD, II and
DOREEN REBECA GATES LARD

Appeal from the Circuit Court for Tipton County
No. 5224 Joseph H. Walker III, Judge

No. W2006-01941-CCA-R3-CD  - Filed December 5, 2007
The Appellants, Charles Thomas Lard, II, and Doreen Rebeca Gates Lard, each pled guilty in the Tipton County Circuit Court to possession of one-half ounce or more of marijuana with intent to deliver and to the manufacture of one-half ounce or more of marijuana, both Class E felonies. Pursuant to a plea agreement, the Lards reserved the following certified question for consideration by this court on appeal: whether the trial court erred in denying their respective motions to suppress evidence and statements obtained by the police after a search of their home, based upon its finding that the Lards knowingly and voluntarily consented to the search.  After thorough consideration of the arguments of the parties and the record on appeal, we affirm.  

Tenn. R. App. P. 3; Judgment of the Circuit Court Affirmed
DAVID G. HAYES, J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which THOM AS T. WOODALL and NORMA MCGEE OGLE, JJ., joined.
J. Barney Witherington IV, Covington, Tennessee, for the Appellant, Charles Thomas Lard, II. Frank Deslauriers, Covington, Tennessee, for the Appellant, Doreen Rebeca Gates Lard.
Robert E. Cooper, Jr., Attorney General and Reporter; Sophia S. Lee, Assistant Attorney General; Mike Dunavant, District Attorney General; and Walt Freeland, Assistant District Attorney General, for the Appellee, State of Tennessee.
OPINION

Factual Background
In September of 2005, the Tipton County Sheriff

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