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STATE OF TENNESSEE v. JOSHUA X. BEASLEY

Posted by: Tanja Trezise on May 5, 2023

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1: Jonathan Harwell (on appeal) and David Skidmore (at trial), Knoxville, Tennessee, for the appellant, Joshua X. Beasley.

Attorneys 2: Herbert H. Slatery III, Attorney General and Reporter; Courtney N. Orr, Senior Assistant Attorney General; Charme P. Allen, District Attorney General; and Ta Kisha Fitzgerald, Assistant District Attorney General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): CAMPBELL

The Defendant, Joshua X. Beasley, was convicted in the Knox County Criminal Court of various drug offenses committed within a drug-free zone and received an effective fifteenyear sentence to be served at one hundred percent in confinement. Subsequently, the trial court granted his motion to resentence him pursuant to the amended version of the Drug- Free Zone Act and imposed an effective twelve-year sentence to be served at thirty percent release eligibility. On appeal, the Defendant contends that the evidence is insufficient to support his convictions and that the trial court erred by initially sentencing him under the previous version of the Act. Based upon the oral arguments, the record, and the parties’ briefs, we affirm the Defendant’s convictions but remand for resentencing as to his conviction in count four, delivering fentanyl, and correction of the judgment.

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