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STATE OF TENNESSEE v. DALLAS WAYNE TOMES, JR.

Posted by: Azya Thornton on Nov 10, 2025

Head Comment: MONTGOMERY concurring

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1: Kendall Stivers Jones, Assistant Public Defender – Appellate Division, Tennessee District Public Defenders Conference (on appeal); Richard Hughes, District Public Defender; Jacquelyn Abigail Burke Carroll (at motion for new trial hearing), M. Keith Roberts and Steve Morgan (at pretrial hearings and trial), and Donald Shahan1 (at arraignment and pretrial hearings) Assistant District Public Defenders, for the appellant, Dallas Wayne Tomes, Jr.

Attorneys 2: Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter; Garrett D. Ward, Senior Assistant Attorney General; Shari Tayloe, District Attorney General; and Ashley Zepeda and Paul Moyle, Assistant District Attorneys General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): SWORD

The Defendant, Dallas Wayne Tomes, Jr., was convicted in the Criminal Court of Bradley County of five counts of burglary of a building other than a habitation, two counts of theft of property valued at more than $1000 but less than $2500, and one count of theft of property valued at $1000 or less. On appeal, the Defendant challenges the trial court’s denial of his motion to dismiss his charges pursuant to the Interstate Agreement on Detainers (“IAD”) and its classification of him as a career offender, arguing that the trial court failed to conduct a foreign judgments test prior to sentencing. Discerning no error, we affirm the trial court’s judgments.

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