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STATE OF TENNESSEE v. JAMIE PAUL CLICK

Posted by: Azya Thornton on May 7, 2025

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1: Wesley D. Stone, Knoxville, Tennessee, for the appellant, Jamie Paul Click.

Attorneys 2: Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter; Katherine C. Redding, Senior Assistant Attorney General; Jimmy B. Dunn, District Attorney General; and George C. Ioannides, Assistant District Attorney General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): HIXSON

In 2014, a Sevier County jury convicted the Defendant, Jamie Paul Click, of alternate counts of selling or delivering one-half gram of heroin within 1,000 feet of a public elementary school, Class A felonies, in addition to other offenses. The trial court merged the two drug-free zone convictions and sentenced the Defendant to forty years as a Range II, multiple offender with mandatory one-hundred percent service of the minimum sentence in the range. In 2022, following amendments to the Drug-Free Zone Act, the Defendant filed a motion for resentencing pursuant to Tennessee Code Annotated section 39-17-432(h), which the trial court denied following an evidentiary hearing. The Defendant appeals, arguing that the trial court’s ruling was a plain and palpable abuse of discretion. Upon our review of the oral arguments, applicable law, and the briefs of the parties, we deny the Defendant’s request for a writ of certiorari and affirm the judgment of the trial court.

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