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STATE OF TENNESSEE v. DAVID A. YOST, JR.

Posted by: Azya Thornton on Oct 30, 2025

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1: J. Liddell Kirk (on appeal), Madisonville, Tennessee, and Michael Graves (at plea and sentencing hearings), Knoxville, Tennessee, for the appellant, David A. Yost, Jr.

Attorneys 2: Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter; G. Kirby May, Assistant Attorney General; Charme P. Allen, District Attorney General; and Robert Debusk, Assistant District Attorney General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): HIXSON

The Defendant, David A. Yost, Jr., appeals from his guilty-pled convictions for unlawful possession of a firearm by a person with a prior felony drug conviction, simple possession of marijuana, and two counts of possession of drug paraphernalia, for which he received an agreed-to, effective eight-year sentence. The trial court initially denied the Defendant’s request for alternative sentencing and ordered the Defendant to serve his sentence in confinement. Following the Defendant’s appeal of this sentencing determination, this court reversed and remanded the case based on the trial court’s failure to make the appropriate findings and articulate its reasoning for imposing a sentence of incarceration. On remand, the trial court again ordered confinement. In the instant appeal, the Defendant challenges, for a second time, the trial court’s denial of alternative sentencing as an abuse of discretion. After review, we affirm the judgments of the trial court.

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