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STATE OF TENNESSEE v. KEVIN E. TRENT

Posted by: Karen Belcher on Apr 17, 2020

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1: Leif Ericson Jeffers, District Public Defender; and Robert Scott (on appeal and at sentencing) and Latasha Wasson (at sentencing), Assistant District Public Defenders, for the appellant, Kevin E. Trent.

Attorneys 2: Herbert H. Slatery III, Attorney General and Reporter; Courtney N. Orr, Assistant Attorney General; Jared R. Effler, District Attorney General; and Graham Wilson, Assistant District Attorney General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): MONTGOMERY

The Defendant, Kevin E. Trent, was convicted in 2015 upon his guilty plea of vehicular homicide by intoxication, a Class B felony. See T.C.A. § 39-13-213 (2010). The Defendant pleaded guilty as a Range I, standard offender and agreed to an eight-year sentence. The manner of service of his sentence was reserved for the trial court’s determination. On appeal, the Defendant contends that the trial court erred by imposing incarceration rather than an alternative sentence. We reverse the judgment of the trial court and remand the case for the entry of an amended judgment reflecting the sentence of split confinement of time served and the remainder on probation. Upon remand, the trial court is to determine the appropriate conditions of probation.

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