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STATE OF TENNESSEE v. JASON A. MCCAIN

Posted by: Karen Belcher on Aug 20, 2025

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1: Joshua V. Lehde (on appeal), Public Defender Fellow – Appellate Division, Franklin, Tennessee, and Chad A. Cox (at trial), Paris, Tennessee, for the appellant, Jason A. McCain.

Attorneys 2: Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter; J. Katie Neff, Assistant Attorney General; Neil Thompson, District Attorney General; and C. Morgan Crocker, Assistant District Attorney General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): CAMPBELL

The Defendant, Jason A. McCain, pled guilty in the Henry County Circuit Court to reckless endangerment with a deadly weapon, a Class E felony. After a sentencing hearing, the trial court sentenced him as a Range III, persistent offender to six years in confinement. On appeal, the Defendant contends that the trial court should have sentenced him as a Range I, standard offender because the State did not file its notice of intent to seek enhancement punishment pursuant to Tennessee Code Annotated section 40-35-202(a) until the day of his sentencing hearing and that his six-year sentence is excessive. Based upon the oral arguments, the record, and the parties’ briefs, we affirm the judgment of the trial court.

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