State of Tennessee v. Doris M. Dennison

The defendant, Doris M. Dennison, pled guilty in the Union County Criminal Court to five counts of aggravated sexual battery, a Class B felony. Pursuant to the plea agreement, the defendant received an eight-year sentence for each conviction with the issue of concurrent or consecutive sentencing to be determined by the trial court. After a sentencing hearing, the trial court ordered that the defendant serve counts one through four consecutively to each other but concurrently with count five for an effective sentence of thirty-two years in the Department of Correction. The defendant appeals, claiming that the trial court improperly ordered consecutive sentences. We affirm the judgments of the trial court.