STATE OF TENNESSEE v. KERION DAWSON - Articles

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Posted by: Azya Thornton on Nov 21, 2025

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1: Tony N. Brayton, Assistant Shelby County Public Defender (on appeal), and Courtney Evans, Assistant Shelby County Public Defender (at trial), Memphis, Tennessee, for the appellant, Kerion Dawson.

Attorneys 2: Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter; Ryan W. Davis, Assistant Attorney General; Steven J. Mulroy, District Attorney General; and Robert Steele, Assistant District Attorney General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): CAMPBELL

The Defendant, Kerion Dawson, pled guilty in the Shelby County Criminal Court to mitigated statutory rape, a Class E felony, and received a two-year sentence to be served as sixty days in confinement and the remainder on supervised probation. On appeal, the Defendant claims that the trial court erred by denying his request for judicial diversion. After review, we affirm the sentence imposed by the trial court.

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