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STATE OF TENNESSEE V. JEREMY ALLEN STEPHENS

Posted by: Azya Thornton on Mar 7, 2025

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1: Leif Ericson Jeffers, District Public Defender - Appellate Division; Jessica F. Butler, Assistant District Public Defender, Franklin, Tennessee (on appeal); Gordon A. Byars, Cookeville, Tennessee (at trial), for the appellant, Jeremy Allen Stephens.

Attorneys 2: Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter; Lacy E. Wilber, Senior Assistant Attorney General; Jared R. Effler, District Attorney General; and Philip A. Kazee and Apryl Bradshaw, Assistant District Attorneys General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): WEDEMEYER

In 2023, the Defendant, Jeremy Allen Stephens, entered a guilty plea to two counts of aggravated child abuse. Subsequently, the Defendant filed a motion to withdraw his plea, which the trial court denied. At the subsequent sentencing hearing, the trial court imposed an effective sentence of fifty years. On appeal, the Defendant contends that his motion to withdraw his guilty plea should have been granted and that the trial court erred when it imposed consecutive sentences. After review, we affirm the trial court’s judgments.

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