State of Tennessee v. Ronald Brown

Ronald Steven Brown, the defendant, was convicted of the following offenses under four separate indictments: No. 14233, attempted first degree murder (Class A felony); No. 14232, attempted second degree murder (Class B felony) and assault (Class A misdemeanor); No. 14235, aggravated assault (Class C felony); and No. 14231, felony evading arrest (Class E felony) and DUI, first offense (Class A misdemeanor). The defendant was sentenced as a standard offender to an effective sentence of forty-three years, consecutive to a ten-year federal sentence. On appeal, the defendant alleges error in four areas: (1) The failure of the State court reporter to preserve transcripts of the pretrial motions and sentencing hearing violated his right of due process: (2) The trial court imposed an excessive sentence; (3) The trial court permitted the State to amend an indictment over his objection after the jury was sworn; and (4) He was sentenced in violation of Gomez v. Tenn., 127 S.Ct. 1209 (2007). After careful review, we conclude that the defendant is not entitled to any relief and affirm the judgments from the trial court.