State of Tennessee v. Jeremy Davis

A Hamilton County Criminal Court jury convicted the defendant of the attempted first degree murder of a police officer, and the defendant pled guilty to twenty-nine charges, including multiple counts of car burglary, felony theft, and misdemeanor theft. The trial court sentenced him as a Range I, standard offender to twenty-five years for the attempted murder conviction and as a Range II, multiple offender to an effective sentence of six years for the remaining convictions. The trial court ordered that the twenty-five-year and six-year sentences be served consecutively to each other and consecutively to a six-year revoked probation sentence. The defendant appeals, claiming that the trial court erred (1) by refusing to dismiss a juror for cause; (2) by refusing to compel the state to provide the defense with the police department's written use-of-force policy; (3) by refusing to allow the defense to cross-examine police officers about the use-of-force policy; (4) by refusing to allow an expert to testify about the victim's excessive use of force against the defendant; (5) by refusing to instruct the jury on deadly force; and (6) by ordering consecutive sentencing. We affirm the judgments of the trial court.