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Court of Criminal Appeals hears dispute over detainer timing and career-offender sentence in State v. Dallas Tomes Jr.
Summary
At the Eastern Section July docket in Knoxville, a three-judge panel considered whether Tennessee prosecutors timely brought charges under the Interstate Agreement on Detainers and whether the trial court erred in classifying the defendant as a career offender based on out-of-state convictions.
The Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals, Eastern Section, heard oral argument in Knoxville during its July docket in State of Tennessee v. Dallas Tomes Jr., a direct appeal that raised two central questions: whether prosecutors met the deadline for prosecution under the Interstate Agreement on Detainers (IAD) and whether the trial court properly classified the defendant as a career offender based on several Florida convictions.
Kendall Jones, appellate counsel for the defendant, told the three-judge panel that Tomes (spelled in the record variously as Tomes/Tombs/Tones) raised two issues on appeal: “Both of those do not… deal with the actual underlying trial itself, but are rather somewhat procedural,” Jones said, summarizing the appeal as focused on (1) the IAD timing and (2) a sentencing issue related to foreign convictions used to elevate Tomes’ range to career-offender status.
The first issue concerns whether the case proceeded under article 3 of the IAD (a defendant-initiated transfer, which triggers a…
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