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STATE OF TENNESSEE v. SCOTT BRADLEY PRICE

Posted by: Azya Thornton on May 15, 2026

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1: Jessica F. Butler, Assistant Public Defender-Appellate Division, Franklin, Tennessee (on appeal), and Austin Bethany, Assistant Public Defender, Jackson, Tennessee (at trial), for the appellant, Scott Bradley Price.

Attorneys 2: Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter; Ronald L. Coleman, Senior Assistant Attorney General and Kelly M. Telfeyan, Assistant Attorney General; Jody S. Pickens, District Attorney General; and Matthew Floyd, Assistant District Attorney General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): CAMPBELL

The Defendant, Scott Bradley Price, was convicted by a Madison County Circuit Court jury of theft of property valued at $2,500 or more but less than $10,000 and was sentenced by the trial court as a Range II offender to eight years in the Tennessee Department of Correction. On appeal, the Defendant challenges the sufficiency of the evidence and argues that the trial court erred in not instructing the jury on unauthorized use of a vehicle as a lesser-included offense. We conclude that the evidence is sufficient to sustain the jury’s verdict. We further conclude that the trial court erred in not instructing the jury on the unauthorized use of a vehicle as a lesser-included offense, but that the failure to charge the lesser-included offense was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt because no reasonable jury would have convicted the Defendant of the lesser-included offense under the facts of this case. Accordingly, we affirm the judgment of the trial court.

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