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JEFFREY WAYNE HUGHES v. STATE OF TENNESSEE

Posted by: Karen Belcher on Sep 23, 2021

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1: John M. Schweri, Columbia, Tennessee, for the appellant, Jeffrey Wayne Hughes.

Attorneys 2: Herbert H. Slatery III, Attorney General and Reporter; Ruth Anne Thompson, Senior Assistant Attorney General; Brent Cooper, District Attorney General; and Gary Howell and Christi Thompson, Assistant District Attorneys General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): WILLIAMS

The Petitioner, Jeffrey Wayne Hughes, entered open guilty pleas to one count of theft of $250,000 or more, one count of theft of $10,000 or more but less than $60,000, and six counts of money laundering, and he received an effective twenty-seven-year sentence. He filed a petition for post-conviction relief, asserting that his pleas were involuntary because the aggregation of the theft offenses violated the prohibition on ex post facto laws and asserting that he received ineffective assistance of counsel. The post-conviction court denied relief, and he appeals. We conclude that the Petitioner’s pleas were not involuntary because there was no ex post facto violation and that he has not established that he received ineffective assistance of counsel. Accordingly, we affirm the denial of relief.

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