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STATE OF TENNESSEE v. CHRISTINA LEE JONES THOMAS

Posted by: Tanja Trezise on Jul 14, 2014

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1:

J. Matthew Bolton (at trial and on appeal), Johnson City, Tennessee; and James Beeler and Todd Ross (at suppression hearing), Kingsport, Tennessee, for the appellant, Christina Lee Jones Thomas.

Attorneys 2:

Robert E. Cooper, Jr., Attorney General and Reporter; Renee W. Turner, Senior Counsel; Tony Clark, District Attorney General; and Janet Hardin and Erin McArdle, Assistant District Attorneys General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): THOMAS

The Defendant, Christina Lee Jones Thomas, was convicted by a Washington County jury of especially aggravated robbery and especially aggravated kidnapping. Following a sentencing hearing, the trial court imposed concurrent terms of eighteen years at 100% for these convictions. On appeal, the Defendant claims that she had not abandoned her residence as the trial court determined and that, therefore, it was error to deny her motion to suppress the evidence found inside her home obtained without a search warrant. The Defendant also contends that the evidence adduced at trial is insufficient to support her convictions and that the trial court abused its discretion in enhancing the length of her sentences. After reviewing the record, we conclude that trial court did not err in denying the Defendant’s motion to suppress because the Defendant had abandoned the property, that the evidence produced at trial was sufficient to support the Defendant’s convictions, and that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in setting the length of the Defendant’s sentences. Accordingly, the judgments of the trial court are affirmed.

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