James R.W. Reynolds v. State of Tennessee

The petitioner, James R.W. Reynolds, pled guilty to two counts of aggravated rape and was sentenced to concurrent thirty-five year sentences. Subsequently, the petitioner filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, alleging that Blakely v. Washington, 542 U.S. __, 124 S. Ct. 2531 (2004), rendered the 1982 Sentencing Reform Act unconstitutional in general and unconstitutional as applied to him specifically. The habeas corpus court summarily denied the petition for a writ of habeas corpus, and the petitioner appeals. Upon our review of the record and the parties’ briefs, we affirm the judgment of the habeas corpus court.