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STATE OF TENNESSEE v. DAVID ELLISON

Posted by: Azya Thornton on May 7, 2026

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1: Andrew J. Gibbons, District Public Defender; Randall Fleming, Assistant Public Defender, for the appellant, David Christopher Ellison.

Attorneys 2: Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter; Benjamin A. Ball, Senior Assistant Attorney General; Barry Staubus, District Attorney General; and Matthew Darby, Assistant District Attorney General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): EASTER

David Ellison, Defendant, was serving a six-year sentence on supervised probation when the trial court issued a violation of probation warrant for a positive drug screening. Defendant failed to appear, and a second violation of probation warrant was issued. After a hearing, at which Defendant was found to have violated conditions of his probation, the trial court ordered Defendant to serve four years of the sentence and revoked, reinstated, and restarted two years of probation, to be served consecutively to the four-year sentence. Defendant appeals the violation of probation. After a review, we determine that the trial court did not abuse its discretion.

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