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STATE OF TENNESSEE v. PARNELL QUINN SHORT

Posted by: Azya Thornton on Apr 9, 2026

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1: Kendall Stivers Jones, Assistant Public Defender – Appellate Division (on appeal), Franklin, Tennessee, and Konner F. Brabson, (at trial), Morristown, Tennessee, for the appellant, Parnell Quinn Short.

Attorneys 2: Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter; Ryan W. Davis, Assistant Attorney General; Dan E. Armstrong, District Attorney General; and Philip M Gibson, Assistant District Attorney General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): WEDEMEYER

A Hamblen County jury convicted the Defendant, Parnell Quinn Short, of theft of property valued between $1000 and $2500, a Class E felony and fixed a fine of $1750. The trial court imposed the fine fixed by the jury and sentenced the Defendant, as a career offender, to serve six years to run consecutively to the Defendant’s convictions in other cases. On appeal, the Defendant asserts that the trial court erred when it: (1) admitted three of his prior convictions for impeachment purposes; and (2) imposed the fine set by the jury without making the statutorily required findings. After review, we affirm the trial court’s judgment but vacate the imposition of the fine. We remand the case for a sentencing hearing with respect to the imposition of the fine.

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