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STATE OF TENNESSEE v. RONNIE THOMAS BAKER

Posted by: Karen Belcher on Oct 4, 2019

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1:

Martesha Johnson, District Public Defender; Jeffrey A. DeVasher (on appeal), Patrick Hakes and Stella Yarbrough (at trial), Assistant District Public Defenders, for the appellant, Ronnie Thomas Baker.

Attorneys 2:

Herbert H. Slatery III, Attorney General and Reporter; Ronald L. Coleman, Assistant Attorney General; Glenn Funk, District Attorney General; and Amy M. Hunter, Assistant District Attorney General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): EASTER

Defendant, Ronnie T. Baker, was convicted by a jury of aggravated assault, domestic assault, and interference with a 911 call. The trial court sentenced Defendant to a total effective sentence of ten years, eleven months, and twenty-nine days. On appeal, Defendant argues that (1) the evidence was insufficient to sustain his conviction of aggravated assault; (2) the trial court erred in admitting the victim’s prior consistent statements; (3) the trial court erred in admitting testimony and photos concerning the interior of the victim’s residence that showed destruction of the property by the Defendant; (4) the trial court erred by failing to merge the convictions for aggravated assault and domestic assault; and (5) the trial court erred in imposing the maximum sentence and by imposing partial consecutive sentencing. After conducting a full review of the record, we affirm the judgments of the trial court.

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