STATE OF TENNESSEE v. MICHAEL CLARENCE CRAFT, JACKIE DEWAYNE DAVIS, AND ZACHARY STUART TABLACK - Articles

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STATE OF TENNESSEE v. MICHAEL CLARENCE CRAFT, JACKIE DEWAYNE DAVIS, AND ZACHARY STUART TABLACK

Posted by: Karen Belcher on Mar 4, 2024

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1: Jacob W. Fendley, Clarksville, Tennessee, for the appellant, Michael Clarence Craft.

Attorneys 2: John D. Parker, Clarksville, Tennessee, for the appellant, Zachary Stuart Tablack.

Attorneys 3: Stephanie Ritchie Mize (on appeal and at plea hearing) and Terria Blunt (at sentencing), Clarksville, Tennessee, for the appellant, Jackie Dewayne Davis.

Attorneys 4: Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter; Katherine C. Redding, Senior, Assistant Attorney General; and Robert J. Nash, District Attorney General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee

Judge(s): HOLLOWAY

Michael Craft, Jackie Dewayne Davis, and Zachary Stuart Tablack, collectively “Defendants,” pled guilty as Range I offenders to two counts of voluntary manslaughter with the issue of judicial diversion and, alternatively, the length and manner of service of their sentences, to be determined by the trial court. Following a sentencing hearing, the court sentenced each Defendant to concurrent terms of six years’ incarceration. On appeal, Defendants Davis and Tablack claim that the trial court erred by denying judicial diversion, by denying probation, and by sentencing them to the maximum sentence. Defendant Craft claims that the court erred by imposing the maximum sentence. Discerning no reversible error, the judgments of the trial court are affirmed.

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