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STATE OF TENNESSEE v. TONDRE DUPRESS RAGLAND

Posted by: Azya Thornton on May 19, 2025

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1: M. Todd Ridley, Franklin, Tennessee, for the appellant, Tondre Dupress Ragland.

Attorneys 2: Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter; Courtney N. Orr, Assistant Attorney General; Frederick H. Agee, District Attorney General; and Scott G. Kirk, Assistant District Attorney General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): WEDEMEYER

A Haywood County jury convicted the Defendant, Tondre Dupress Ragland, of attempted second degree murder, possession of a firearm during the commission of a dangerous felony, and aggravated assault. The trial court sentenced the Defendant to an effective sentence of twenty years in confinement. On direct appeal, this court affirmed the Defendant’s convictions, but we reversed the imposition of consecutive sentences and remanded to the trial court for consideration of the Wilkerson factors. State v. Ragland, W2022-01303-CCA-R3-CD, 2023 WL 3947501, at *1 (Tenn. Crim. App. June 12, 2023), no Tenn. R. App. P. 11 application filed. On remand, the trial court found that the Defendant was a dangerous offender and again imposed consecutive sentences. On appeal, the Defendant contends that the trial court erred when it found that he was a dangerous offender for purposes of consecutive sentencing. After conducting a de novo review, we conclude that the Defendant’s sentences should be served concurrently, rather than consecutively.

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