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STATE OF TENNESSEE v. OSCAR HERNANDEZ

Posted by: Azya Thornton on Aug 1, 2025

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1: Gerald L. Melton, District Public Defender; and Katie Ladefoged, Assistant District Public Defender, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, for the appellant, Oscar Hernandez.

Attorneys 2: Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter; Raymond J. Lepone, Assistant Attorney General; Jennings H. Jones, District Attorney General; and Sharon L. Reddick, Assistant District Attorney General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): USMAN

A jury convicted the defendant, Oscar Hernandez, of three counts of rape of a child and five counts of aggravated sexual battery. The trial court sentenced the defendant to thirty- three years for each of the rape of a child convictions and to ten years for each of the aggravated sexual battery convictions. The trial court ordered the three thirty-three-year sentences to run consecutively and the remaining sentences to run concurrently, for an effective sentence of ninety-nine years’ incarceration. In his direct appeal, the defendant contends the effective sentence is excessive. We affirm

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