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STATE OF TENNESSEE v. BRANDON EUGENE BEARD

Posted by: Azya Thornton on Jan 28, 2025

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1: Ethel P. Rhodes, Morristown, Tennessee, for the appellant, Brandon Eugene Beard.

Attorneys 2: Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter; Ronald L. Coleman, Senior Assistant Attorney General; Dan E. Armstrong, District Attorney General; and Paul James Hornick, IV, and Bradley Ryan Jones, Assistant District Attorneys General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): WEDEMEYER

The Defendant, Brandon Eugene Beard, pleaded guilty to three counts of aggravated assault and one count of being a felon in possession of a handgun. After the plea, but before the sentencing hearing, the State filed a notice to seek enhanced punishment offering exhibits showing that the Defendant qualified as a Range I offender and asking the court to impose consecutive sentences and the maximum sentence. After the hearing, the trial court sentenced the Defendant as a Range Il offender to eighteen years for each of the assault convictions to be served concurrently at 85% and to ten years for the handgun conviction to be served at 35% and consecutively to the assault sentences, for a total effective sentence of twenty-eight years. On appeal, the Defendant contends that the trial court erred when ti ordered partial consecutive sentencing and when it considered the State's notice to seek enhanced punishment, which the State filed after he pleaded guilty. After review, we affirm the trial court's judgments.

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