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STATE OF TENNESSEE v. CHARLES JONATHAN MURPHY

Posted by: Tanja Trezise on Sep 14, 2023

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1: Jeremy Epperson, District Public Defender; Hayley F. Johnson, Assistant District Public Defender, Jackson, Tennessee (at trial and on appeal), for the appellant, Charles Jonathan Murphy.

Attorneys 2: Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter; Ronald L. Coleman, Assistant Attorney General; Jody S. Pickens, District Attorney General; and Chadwick R. Wood, Assistant District Attorney General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): CAMPBELL

The Defendant, Charles Jonathan Murphy, was convicted by a Henderson County Circuit Court jury of two counts of rape, a Class B felony, and was sentenced by the trial court as a Range I, standard offender to ten years for each conviction, with the sentences to be served consecutively, for a total effective sentence of twenty years at 100 % in the Department of Correction. On appeal, the Defendant argues that the evidence is insufficient to sustain the convictions and that the trial court erred in sentencing him by misapplying an enhancement factor and ordering consecutive sentences. Based on our review, we affirm the judgments of the trial court.

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