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STATE OF TENNESSEE v. AMANDA MICHELLE OWEN

Posted by: Azya Thornton on Oct 2, 2025

Court: TN Court of Appeals

Attorneys 1: Joshua V. Lehde, Public Defender Fellow - Appellate Division, Franklin, Tennessee; and Mack Garner, District Public Defender, Maryville, Tennessee, for the appellant, Amanda Michelle Owen.

Attorneys 2: Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter; Kristen A. Bell, Assistant Attorney General; Ryan K. Desmond, District Attorney General; and Tracy T. Jenkins, Assistant District Attorney General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): WILSON

Defendant, Amanda Michelle Owen, appeals the eight-year sentence imposed for her Blount County Circuit Court guilty-pleaded conviction of theft of property valued at $60,000 or more but less than $250,000, a Class B felony, arguing that the trial court erred by imposing a sentence of full incarceration. Because the record reflects that the trial court made the appropriate findings and that those findings are supported by the facts of this case, the trial court did not abuse its discretion by ordering that Defendant serve the entirety of her sentence in confinement, and, accordingly, we affirm.

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