State of Tennessee v. Solomon Galloway

A Shelby County Criminal Court jury convicted the appellant, Solomon Galloway, of two counts of aggravated robbery. The trial court merged the convictions and sentenced the appellant as a Range I, standard offender to eight years in the Department of Correction. In this appeal, the appellant claims that the trial court improperly enhanced his sentence in light of Blakely v. Washington, 542 U.S. 296, 124 S. Ct. 2531 (2004), which resulted in his being improperly classified as a standard offender instead of an especially mitigated offender. Upon review of the record and the parties’ briefs, we affirm the judgment of the trial court.