State of Tennessee v. James Alfred Reed, Jr.

The Defendant, James Alfred Reed, Jr., was convicted by a Monroe County Criminal Court jury of the sale of one-half gram or more of cocaine within 1000 feet of a school, a Class A felony, and the sale of less than one-half gram of cocaine within 1000 feet of a school, a Class B felony. See T.C.A. §§ 39-17-417(a)-(b), -(i), 39-17-432(b) (2010). He was sentenced as a Range II, multiple offender to forty years’ confinement for the Class A felony and to a concurrent term of twenty years’ confinement for the Class B felony. On appeal, the Defendant contends that the trial court erred by (1) denying his motion for acquittal based on insufficiency of the evidence, (2) failing to instruct the jury on the lesser included offense of facilitation, (3) failing to instruct the jury on the missing witness rule, and (4) imposing the maximum length for each sentence. We affirm the judgments of the trial court.