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STATE OF TENNESSEE v. GARY E. BROWN

Posted by: Azya Thornton on Nov 4, 2024

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1: Eric Lutton, District Public Defender; Jonathan Harwell, Assistant Public Defender (on appeal); Heather Bosau, Assistant Public Defender (at pleas and sentencing), Knoxville, Tennessee, for the appellant, Gary E. Brown.

Attorneys 2: Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter; Richard D. Douglas, Senior Assistant Attorney General; Charme P. Allen, District Attorney General; and Sean Roberts, Assistant District Attorney General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): AYERS

Defendant, Gary E. Brown, was indicted by a Knox County Grand Jury in case number 122940 for aggravated assault by strangulation, domestic assault, false imprisonment, interfering with an emergency call, and two counts of violating a no contact order. Defendant was later charged by information in case number 125355 with domestic aggravated assault. In case number 122940, Defendant pled guilty to domestic assault and was sentenced to 179 days for which he had credit. In case number 125355, Defendant pled guilty to aggravated assault with an agreed-upon sentence of three years suspended to probation, with the trial court to determine after a hearing whether Defendant would receive judicial diversion. Following the trial court’s denial of judicial diversion, Defendant appeals arguing that the trial court abused its discretion in denying judicial diversion. Following our review of the record, the briefs of the parties, and the applicable law, we affirm the judgments of the trial court.

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