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STATE OF TENNESSEE v. GAVIN TYLER SHEETS

Posted by: Karen Belcher on Apr 12, 2023

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1: Brandon E. White (on appeal) and John S. Colley, III (at trial), Columbia, Tennessee, for the appellant, Gavin Tyler Sheets.

Attorneys 2: Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter; Ronald L. Coleman, Assistant Attorney General; Brent A. Cooper, District Attorney General; and J. Victoria Haywood, Assistant District Attorney General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): GREENHOLTZ

The Defendant, Gavin Tyler Sheets, pled guilty to the offenses of vehicular homicide by recklessness and reckless endangerment. Following a sentencing hearing, the trial court imposed a total effective sentence of six years to serve in the Tennessee Department of Correction. On appeal, the Defendant asserts that the trial court abused its discretion when it denied his request for judicial diversion. He also contends that the trial court abused its discretion in failing to order an alternative sentence to incarceration. We respectfully disagree and affirm the judgments of the trial court.

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