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STATE OF TENNESSEE v. DWIGHT JAMES

Posted by: Tanja Trezise on Jul 15, 2014

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1:

Kenneth K. Crites, Centerville, Tennessee, for the appellant, Dwight James.

Attorneys 2:

Robert E. Cooper, Jr., Attorney General and Reporter; Tracy L. Alcock, Assistant Attorney General; Kim R. Helper, District Attorney General; and Kate Yeager, Assistant District Attorney General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

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After a jury trial, appellant, Dwight James, was convicted of failing to register as a sex offender. The trial court sentenced appellant to two years in confinement, suspended to probation after 150 days of incarceration. On appeal, appellant argues that the trial court erred by denying his motion to vacate his prior guilty plea to two counts of sexual battery in 1989 and that the requirement that he register as a sex offender violates the Ex Post Facto Clause and his procedural due process rights. Following our review of the parties’ briefs, the record, and the applicable law, we affirm the judgments of the trial court.

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