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STATE OF TENNESSEE v. STANLEY WILLIAM HAVENS

Posted by: Azya Thornton on Dec 23, 2025

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1: John B. Nisbet III, Cookeville, Tennessee, for the appellant, Stanley William Havens.

Attorneys 2: Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter; Edwin Alan Groves, Jr., Assistant Attorney General; Bryant C. Dunaway, District Attorney General; and Rachel Bateman, Assistant District Attorney General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): USMAN

A jury convicted Defendant, Stanley William Havens, of driving under the influence of an intoxicant (DUI) and of driving with a blood alcohol concentration of .08% or higher (DUI per se), and it found that this was Defendant’s third DUI offense for enhanced sentencing. The offenses were merged, and Defendant was assessed a fine and sentenced to serve 11 months and 29 days in confinement, with a release eligibility of 75%. Defendant appeals, challenging: (1) the sufficiency of the evidence; (2) the redacted video of the traffic stop; (3) the trial court’s failure to excuse a juror for cause; (4) a statement during voir dire that he asserts constitutes prosecutorial misconduct; and (5) his sentence. We affirm and remand for entry of a corrected judgments in Counts 2 and 3.

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