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State vs. Martin 03C01-9711-CR-00508 Trial Court Judge: James E. Beckner	Greene	Court of Criminal Appeals	10/12/98
State vs. Bivens 03C01-9711-CR-00497	McMinn	Court of Criminal Appeals	10/12/98
State of Tennessee vs. Edward Anthony Joslin 01C01-9710-CR-00491 Authoring Judge: Judge John H. Peay Trial Court Judge: Judge Seth Norman A jury found the defendant guilty of conspiracy to possess with the intent to deliver over seventy pounds of marijuana; two counts of possession with the intent to deliver one-half ounce to ten pounds of marijuana; and delivery of ten pounds, one gram to seventy pounds of marijuana. The trial court imposed an effective sentence of thirtynine years incarceration, with a total fine of one hundred sixty thousand dollars ($160,000). On appeal, the defendant presents ten issues for review, most of which deal with the sufficiency of the convicting evidence or the propriety of the defendant’s sentence. We affirm the defendant’s convictions and sentence.	Davidson	Court of Criminal Appeals	10/07/98
State of Tennessee vs. Michael Orman 01C01-9710-CR-00498 Authoring Judge: Judge Joe G. Riley Trial Court Judge: Judge Cheryl Blackburn The defendant was found guilty by a Davidson County jury of burglary and theft of property over $1,000. The trial court sentenced defendant to Range II sentences of six years on each count and ordered them served consecutively for an effective twelve-year sentence. The defendant contends that the trial court erred in finding and weighing the enhancement and mitigating factors and in ordering the sentences served consecutively instead of concurrently. After a thorough review of the record, we affirm the sentence as imposed.	Davidson	Court of Criminal Appeals	10/07/98
Terry L. Baker vs. State of Tennessee 01C01-9711-CR-00522 Authoring Judge: Judge John H. Peay Trial Court Judge: Judge Seth Norman The petitioner pled guilty to six counts of drug charges in Davidson County case number 92-A-647 on May 16, 1995. He was sentenced as a Range I offender to concurrent ten year sentences to be served in the Community Corrections program. On January 19, 1996, the petitioner was found guilty of violating his community corrections sentence and the court increased his sentence from ten years to twenty years to serve. On December 11, 1996, the petitioner filed a petition for post-conviction relief. The petition was dismissed by the trial court on the grounds that it was filed outside the applicable statute of limitations. The petitioner now appeals and argues the postconviction court erred when it dismissed the petition. We agree and reverse the judgment of the court below and remand this cause for a hearing on the merits of the petition.	Davidson	Court of Criminal Appeals	10/07/98
Timothy R. Powell vs. State of Tennessee 01C01-9708-CR-00379 Authoring Judge: Judge David H. Welles Trial Court Judge: Judge Frank G. Clement The Defendant, Timothy R. Powell, appeals as of right from the order of the trial court summarily dismissing his second petition for post-conviction relief. We affirm the judgment of the trial court.	Davidson	Court of Criminal Appeals	10/06/98
Billie Joe Linticum vs. State of Tennessee - Concurring 03C01-9710-CR-00458 Authoring Judge: Judge Joe G. Riley Trial Court Judge: Judge Stephen M. Bivel The petitioner was convicted by a jury of first degree murder in 1975 and sentenced to death. This Court affirmed the conviction, but the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment by executive action. Hamilton v. State, 555 S.W.2d 724 (Tenn. Crim. App. 1977).	Hamilton	Court of Criminal Appeals	10/06/98
State of Tennessee vs. Cecil Eugene McGuire 03C01-9705-CC-00191 Authoring Judge: Judge Curwood Witt Trial Court Judge: Judge Rex Henry Ogle The Sevier County Grand Jury indicted sixteen-year old Cecil Eugene McGuire for aggravated rape, aggravated sexual battery, and aggravated burglary. After a trial, the jury acquitted the defendant of aggravated rape and aggravated burglary but found him guilty of aggravated sexual battery and aggravated criminal trespass, a lesser grade offense of aggravated burglary. The trial court sentenced him to serve eleven years in the custody of the Department of Correction as a Range I, standard offender for the Class B felony, concurrently with eleven months and twenty-nine days for the Class A misdemeanor. Pursuant to Rule 3 of the Tennessee Rules of Appellate Procedure, the defendant presents the following issues: 1. Whether the indictments are fatally defective and thereby deprive the trial court of jurisdiction in this case. 2. Whether the evidence as a matter of law was insufficient to support the convictions. 3. Whether the trial court improperly credited and weighed the enhancement factors and imposed an excessive sentence. After a careful review of the record and the applicable law, we find no error warranting reversal of the defendant’s convictions. We affirm the convictions, but for reasons explained below, we modify the felony sentence from eleven years to ten years.	Sevier	Court of Criminal Appeals	10/02/98
State vs. Joseph Stinnett 01C01-9707-CC-00288 Trial Court Judge: James K. Clayton, Jr.	Rutherford	Court of Criminal Appeals	09/30/98
State vs. Demario Hill aka David Weathers 01C01-9707-CC-00444 Trial Court Judge: Robert E. Burch	Dickson	Court of Criminal Appeals	09/30/98
State vs. Delbert Harris 01C01-9705-CC-00177 Trial Court Judge: Robert E. Burch	Dickson	Court of Criminal Appeals	09/30/98
State vs. William Clements 01C01-9707-CC-00247	Hickman	Court of Criminal Appeals	09/30/98
State vs. William Bradley 01C01-9708-CR-00336	Davidson	Court of Criminal Appeals	09/30/98
Terry Hall vs. State 01C01-9710-CC-00448	Cheatham	Court of Criminal Appeals	09/30/98
James Newsome vs. State 01C01-9710-CR-00459 Trial Court Judge: Thomas H. Shriver	Davidson	Court of Criminal Appeals	09/30/98
David Gibson vs. State 01C01-9710-CC-00473 Trial Court Judge: W. Charles Lee	Bedford	Court of Criminal Appeals	09/30/98
State vs. AAA Aaron's Action Agency Bail Bond, Inc. 01C01-9710-CR-00462 Trial Court Judge: Seth W. Norman	Davidson	Court of Criminal Appeals	09/30/98
Larry T. Carter vs. State 01C01-9710-CR-00488	Davidson	Court of Criminal Appeals	09/30/98
State vs. Donald Wallace 01C01-9711-CC-00526 Trial Court Judge: Leonard W. Martin	Stewart	Court of Criminal Appeals	09/30/98
State vs. Floyd Smith, II 01C01-9711-CR-00511	Wilson	Court of Criminal Appeals	09/30/98
State vs. William Mack Gross E2000-00039-CCA-R3-CD Authoring Judge: Judge Thomas T. Woodall Trial Court Judge: Douglas A. Meyer	Hamilton	Court of Criminal Appeals	09/30/98
01C01-9701-CC-00549 01C01-9701-CC-00549 Trial Court Judge: John H. Gasaway, III	Robertson	Court of Criminal Appeals	09/29/98
State vs. Gerald Lovelace 01C01-9708-CC-00338 Trial Court Judge: Robert W. Wedemeyer	Montgomery	Court of Criminal Appeals	09/29/98
State vs. Gerald Lovelace 01C01-9708-CC-00338 Trial Court Judge: Cheryl A. Blackburn	Davidson	Court of Criminal Appeals	09/29/98
State vs. Jerry Huskins 01C01-9707-CR-00253 Trial Court Judge: John A. Turnbull	Putnam	Court of Criminal Appeals	09/29/98