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STATE OF TENNESSEE v. JAMES JOSEPH RYAN

Posted by: Tanja Trezise on Jul 23, 2014

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1:

Keith Lowe, Knoxville, Tennessee, (on appeal), and John M. Boucher, Jr., Knoxville, Tennessee (at trial), for appellant, James Joseph Ryan.

Attorneys 2:

Robert E. Cooper, Jr., Attorney General and Reporter; Ahmed A. Safeeullah, Assistant Attorney General; Randall Eugene Nichols, District Attorney General; and Kenneth F. Irvine, Jr., Assistant District Attorney General, for the appellee, the State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): WOODALL

Following a jury trial in Knox County Criminal Court, Defendant, James Joseph Ryan, was convicted of burglary of a business (an automobile dealership) and theft of property of more than $10,000.00 in value. He was sentenced as a Range II offender to an effective sentence of ten years. In this appeal, Defendant asserts that accomplice testimony was not corroborated, that the trial court erred by not finding a certain witness was an accomplice as a matter of law, and that the trial court erred by ordering Defendant to pay the court costs. After a thorough review we affirm the judgments of the trial court.

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