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STATE OF TENNESSEE v. JASON O. MILLER

Posted by: Azya Thornton on May 27, 2026

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1: Mitchell A. Raines, Assistant Public Defender, Tennessee District Public Defenders Conference (on appeal) and Jeremy Epperson, District Public Defender, and Caroline Ballentine, Assistant Public Defender (at trial), for the appellant, Jason O. Miller.

Attorneys 2: Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter; Ryan W. Davis, Assistant Attorney General; Jody Pickens, District Attorney General; and Joshua B. Dougan, Assistant District Attorney General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): DYER

A Madison County jury convicted the defendant, Jason O. Miller, of aggravated assault and domestic assault, for which he received an effective sentence of eight years in confinement to be served at 100%. On appeal, the defendant challenges the sufficiency of the evidence supporting his conviction for aggravated assault. The State concedes that the evidence is insufficient to support the defendant’s conviction. Upon review, we conclude there was insufficient evidence to sustain the defendant’s conviction for aggravated assault. However, as there was sufficient evidence to sustain a conviction of assault, we reverse the judgment for aggravated assault, modify the conviction to assault, and remand for a new sentencing hearing and entry of an amended judgment.

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