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STATE OF TENNESSEE v. BRIAN PHILLIPS

Posted by: David Lazar on Jul 16, 2026

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1: Eric M. Lutton, District Public Defender; Jonathan Harwell (on appeal); Jessica Greene (at guilty plea and motion hearing); Mari Jasa (at guilty plea); and Michael Tabler (at guilty plea), Assistant Public Defenders, Knoxville, Tennessee, for the appellant, Brian Phillips.

Attorneys 2: Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter; Kelly Telfeyan, Assistant Attorney General; Charme P. Allen, District Attorney General; Christy Caviness (at plea), TaKisha Fitzgerald (at sentencing), and Justin Pruitt (at motion hearing), Assistant District Attorneys General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): EASTER

This single appeal asks this Court to review the trial court’s sentencing and consequence determinations at Defendant’s, Brian Phillips, combined violation of probation and sentencing hearing in two separate matters. Defendant challenges the trial court’s denial of alternative sentencing following his guilty pleas to two counts of aggravated assault and one count of evading arrest in case number 130233 and violation of probation in case number 120731. Because the trial court did not abuse its discretion, we affirm.

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