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STATE OF TENNESSEE v. DALE RICHARD BIBLE

Posted by: Karen Belcher on Oct 8, 2020

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1: Jay A. Umerley (on appeal), and Mark Kovach (at trial), Nashville, Tennessee, for the appellant, Dale Richard Bible.

Attorneys 2: Herbert H. Slatery III, Attorney General and Reporter; Ruth Anne Thompson, Senior Assistant Attorney General; Glenn R. Funk, District Attorney General; and Jeffery George and Tammy Meade, Assistant District Attorneys General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): THOMAS

The Defendant, Dale Richard Bible, was convicted by a jury of criminally negligent homicide and child neglect, for which he received consecutive sentences of six and four years, respectively. See Tenn. Code Ann. §§ 39-13-212, -15-401. On appeal, the Defendant argues that his dual convictions violate double jeopardy. After our review, we reverse the judgments of the trial court and remand the case for entry of corrected judgments reflecting the merger of the Defendant’s adjudications of guilt into a single conviction for criminally negligent homicide.

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