Dwight Randall Walton v. State of Tennessee

In 2012, a Sullivan County jury convicted the Petitioner, Dwight Randall Walton, of two
counts of rape of a child, two counts of solicitation of sexual exploitation of a minor by
electronic means, and three counts of aggravated sexual battery. For these convictions, he
received an effective sentence of fifty years in the Tennessee Department of Correction.
State v. Walton, No. E2014-02319-CCA-R3-CD, 2015 WL 5554573, at *1 (Tenn. Crim.
App. Sept. 21, 2015), no perm. app. filed. On direct appeal, this court concluded that the
evidence was sufficient to support each conviction, except one of the aggravated sexual
battery convictions (Count 3). Id. Concluding that the evidence was insufficient to support
one of the aggravated sexual battery conviction, we reversed and dismissed that conviction.
Thereafter, the Petitioner filed a petition for post-conviction relief, claiming that he
received the ineffective assistance of counsel. The post-conviction court denied his petition
after a hearing. After review, we affirm the post-conviction court’s judgment.