COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS OPINIONS

State of Tennessee vs. Eric Larez
03C01-9810-CR-00379
Authoring Judge: Judge Alan E. Glenn
Trial Court Judge: Judge R. Jerry Beck

The defendant, Eric Larez, appeals his convictions in the Sullivan County Criminal Court on two counts of the sale of marijuana over one-half ounce and one count of the sale of over one-half gram of cocaine. He was sentenced as a Range I offender to two years confinement for each of the counts involving marijuana and nine years in that involving cocaine, all sentences to be served concurrently. He has filed a timely appeal of these convictions, alleging as error:

1. The trial court should have instructed the jury as to a“casual exchange.”
2. His rights to a speedy trial were violated by the delay of three and one-half years between his being charged with the offenses and being arrested following those charges.
3. The evidence was insufficient for a conviction as to the sale of a controlled substance.
4. He should have received a lesser or an alternative sentence.

Based upon our review, we affirm the judgment of the trial court.

State of Tennessee v. Charles Edward Evans, Alias
E1998-00065-CCA-R3-CD
Authoring Judge: Judge Jerry L. Smith
Trial Court Judge: Judge Ray L. Jenkins

The appellant, Charles Edward Evans, appeals the Knox County Criminal Court’s order revoking his probation. In 1996, the appellant was convicted of one (1) count of selling less than 0.5 grams of cocaine and sentenced to eight (8) years as a Range II offender. The appellant was placed on probation by the Tennessee Department of Correction in February 1998. Subsequently, the state filed a petition to revoke the appellant’s probation, and after an evidentiary hearing, the trial court revoked the appellant’s probation. On appeal, the appellant claims that the trial court erred in revoking probation. After a review of the record before this Court, we affirm the judgment of the trial court pursuant to Rule 20 of the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals.

State vs. Ricio Conner
02C01-9807-CR-00201
Trial Court Judge: James C. Beasley, Jr.

State vs. Brian Williamson
02C01-9810-CR-00305
Trial Court Judge: W. Fred Axley

State vs. Phillip Howell
02C01-9901-CC-00018

State vs. Bailey Agnew
02C01-9901-CR-00015

State vs. Michael A. Braswell
01C01-9807-CC-00304
Trial Court Judge: Henry Denmark Bell

State vs. George Pilkinton
01C01-9809-CC-00368
Trial Court Judge: Judy G. Callahan

Cyrus Wilson vs. State
01C01-9811-CR-00448
Trial Court Judge: Seth W. Norman

State vs. Steven Deadrick
03C01-9806-CR-00219

State vs. Carlos Porto-Saes
02C01-9901-CR-00030
Trial Court Judge: Arthur T. Bennett

State vs. Marshall Simon
02C01-9902-CC-00069

State vs. Jimmy Matlock
02C01-9902-CC-00079
Trial Court Judge: Jon Kerry Blackwood

X2010-0000-XX-X00-XX
X2010-0000-XX-X00-XX
Trial Court Judge: John W. Rollins

State vs. Derrick Jenkins
01C01-9811-CC-00467
Trial Court Judge: John H. Gasaway, III

State vs. Wanda E. Davis
01C01-9811-CR-00446

Dwayne Gentry vs. State
01C01-9904-CC-00117

Daniel Benson Taylor vs. State
01C01-9904-CC-00132
Trial Court Judge: Jerry L. Smith

State vs. Ricky Aaron
M2002-02288-CCA-R3-CD
Authoring Judge: Judge Jerry Smith
Trial Court Judge: Walter C. Kurtz
On October 28, 1999, the defendant, Ricky Grover Aaron, was indicted by the Davidson County Grand Jury for especially aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor and especially aggravated kidnapping. Following a jury trial in June of 2001, the defendant was convicted of especially aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor and false imprisonment. The trial court sentenced the defendant to eleven years for especially aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor and eleven months, twenty-nine days for false imprisonment. The sentences were to run concurrently to each other and consecutively to a federal sentence the defendant was serving at the time of trial. The defendant argues eight issues on appeal:(1) whether the trial court erred in denying the defendant's motion to dismiss due to unnecessary delay; (2) whether the trial court erred in denying the defendant's pretrial motion to suppress his alleged admissions to police because the defendant was subjected to custodial interrogation without having been given Miranda warnings; (3) whether the trial court erred in denying the defendant's motion to suppress a handgun seized by police from his vehicle; (4) whether the evidence in the record is sufficient to support a finding by a rational trier of fact that the defendant is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt of especially aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor and false imprisonment; (5) whether the trial court erred in admitting alleged hearsay testimony related to the alleged victim's mother's response to her daughter's characterization of the defendant as a "pervert"; (6) whether the trial court erred in admitting evidence that another person had been convicted of a sexual offense involving the alleged victim in an unrelated case; (7) whether the trial court erred in failing to declare a mistrial when the prosecutor, in direct violation of the trial court's pretrial ruling, elicited testimony from a police detective that the defendant admitted having child pornography on his computer; and (8) whether the trial court erred in imposing an excessive sentence for the defendant's conviction for especially aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor, and did the court further err in ordering that the sentences in this case be served consecutively to the defendant's federal sentence. We affirm the judgments of the trial court.

State vs. Joyce Lindsey
02C01-9804-CR-00110
Trial Court Judge: James C. Beasley, Jr.

State vs. Fred Smith
02C01-9906-CC-00185
Trial Court Judge: R. Lee Moore Jr.

Kerry Lovett vs. State
01C01-9907-CC-00249

State vs. John Melson
03C01-9712-CC-00531
Trial Court Judge: D. Kelly Thomas, Jr.

03C01-9803-CR-00121
03C01-9803-CR-00121
Trial Court Judge: R. Jerry Beck

State vs. David Eaton
02C01-9802-CR-00043
Trial Court Judge: Chris B. Craft