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Appealing a Sentence

By Baker Associates

Not surprisingly, defendants who are sentenced to jail time for offenses for which they have been found guilty frequently feel that the sentence was too harsh. While it often turns out that the sentence was reached fairly, there are also times where the sentence was indeed too harsh or was not arrived at properly at the trial court level, warranting a vacation of the sentence by the court of appeals. For this to happen, however, a defendant must know the proper way to appeal a sentence. Failure to include the appropriate items in the record for appellate review can all but ensure that the sentence will stand. In a case styled State v. Scott that recently came before the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals, the defendant was challenging a sentence which included six months of jail time that he received after pleading guilty to vehicular assault and driving on a revoked license...continue to full post

Full post as published by Tennessee Criminal Lawyer Blog on April 16, 2010 (boomark / email).