The employee sustained a work-related lower back injury, which required surgery. Her treating physician assigned an 8% permanent impairment rating, and referred her to a pain management specialist. The employee’s lawyer arranged for an independent medical evaluation with a neurologist, who assigned the employee 23% permanent impairment for her back injury and 2% permanent impairment for the sleep interruption she experienced as a result of ongoing back pain.

The Defendant, Eric Darnell Whitaker, was found guilty by a Maury County Circuit Court jury of attempt to commit first degree premeditated murder, a Class A felony, two counts of aggravated assault, Class C felonies, reckless endangerment, a Class E felony, and theft of property valued at $1000 or more but less than $10,000, a Class D felony. See T.C.A. §§ 39- 13-202 (2014), 39-12-101 (2014), 39-13-102 (Supp. 2011) (amended 2013), 39-13-103 (2010) (amended 2011, 2012, 2013), 39-14-103 (Supp. 2011) (amended 2014).

The Defendant, Emily Brittany Davis, pleaded guilty to one count of vandalism under $500 and was sentenced to serve eleven months, twenty-nine days on supervised probation and pay restitution to the victim. After a hearing, where the victim testified about the cost of the Defendant’s vandalism, the criminal court ordered the Defendant to pay $800 in restitution, and the Defendant appeals this order. Following a careful review of the record and applicable law, we affirm.

The Defendant-Appellant, Jesse Allen Christman, entered guilty pleas to aggravated assault and kidnapping, Class C felonies, with the trial court to determine the length and manner of service of the sentences. After a sentencing hearing, the trial court sentenced him to twelve years in the Tennessee Department of Correction. On appeal, the Defendant argues that the trial court abused its discretion in imposing an excessive sentence and in denying him an alternative sentence. Upon review, we affirm the judgments of the trial court.

Following a jury trial, Antonio Bigsbee (“the Petitioner”) was convicted of especially aggravated kidnapping and reckless endangerment and sentenced as an especially mitigated offender to thirteen and a half years’ incarceration. The Petitioner filed a petition for post-conviction relief alleging that trial counsel failed to communicate a plea offer of eight years’ incarceration. After a hearing, the post-conviction court denied relief. Discerning no error, we affirm the judgment of the post-conviction court.

This case involves the modification of a parenting plan. The trial court denied Appellant Father’s petition to modify the permanent parenting plan and to be appointed primary residential parent. However, the trial court granted Appellee Mother’s petition to modify the permanent parenting plan without explicitly acknowledging a material change in circumstance. Mother’s petition did not seek to alter the designation of the primary residential parent, and instead sought to modify the parenting schedule. Father appeals. Discerning no error, we affirm and remand.

This appeal stems from a post-divorce modification proceeding that was commenced by Mother in order to modify the parties’ permanent parenting schedule. Following a recess at trial, the parties announced that they had agreed to the terms of a new parenting plan. The agreed-upon terms were announced by the parties’ counsel in the presence of the parties in open court. Following the entry of the order approving the modified parenting plan, Father stated that he did not consent to the parenting plan and moved to set the trial court’s order aside. The trial court denied his motion.

Plaintiffs, a debt collection company and a motor carrier, filed suit in general sessions court against defendant to collect unpaid transportation and delivery charges. Defendant filed a motion for summary judgment and a motion for sanctions against plaintiffs, arguing that plaintiffs continued to pursue their claims despite knowledge that defendant was not the proper defendant. Plaintiffs eventually voluntarily nonsuited their claim; however, defendants pursued their motion for sanctions. The general sessions court ordered plaintiffs to pay defendants’ attorney’s fees as sanctions.

Defendant, Myron Pierre Walton, appeals from the trial court’s summary dismissal of his motion filed pursuant to Tennessee Rule of Criminal Procedure 36.1. The State concedes that the trial court erred by summarily dismissing Defendant’s motion. Following our review of the parties’ briefs, the record, and the applicable law, we reverse the trial court’s order dismissing the motion and remand for appointment of counsel if Defendant is indigent and for other proceedings pursuant to Tennessee Rule of Criminal Procedure 36.1.

ppellant, Dwight R. Walton, stands convicted of two counts of rape of a child, Class A felonies; three counts of aggravated sexual battery, Class B felonies; and two counts of soliciting sexual exploitation of a minor by electronic means, Class C felonies. He received an effective sentence of fifty years in the Tennessee Department of Correction.