STATE OF TENNESSEE v. JENNIFER LEIGH SALYERS - Articles

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Posted by: Tanja Trezise on Jun 25, 2014

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1:

Andrew J. Gibbons, Blountville, Tennessee (on appeal) and Frank L. Slaughter, Jr., Bristol, Tennessee (at hearing) for the appellant, Jennifer Leigh Salyers.

Attorneys 2:

Robert E. Cooper, Jr., Attorney General and Reporter; Benjamin A. Ball, Senior Counsel; Barry Staubus, District Attorney General; and Julie Canter, Assistant District Attorney General for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): WEDEMEYER

The Defendant, Jennifer Leigh Salyers, pled guilty to two counts of reckless aggravated assault. The trial court denied the Defendant’s application for judicial diversion and sentenced her to serve sixty days in jail, followed by two years of supervised probation. The Defendant asserts that the trial court erred when it denied her application for judicial diversion and a sentence of full probation. After a thorough review of the record and applicable law, we affirm the trial court’s judgments.

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