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Defendant enters no-contest plea to sale of fentanyl; sentenced to eight years in state custody
Summary
Morgan Daniel Crave pleaded no contest to one count of sale of a Schedule II controlled substance (fentanyl) and was ordered to serve eight years in the Tennessee Department of Correction as a Range I offender with credit for time served; two other counts were dismissed under the agreement.
Morgan Daniel Crave, defendant in a criminal docket before the presiding judge (not identified in the transcript), pleaded no contest on the record to one count of sale of a Schedule II controlled substance (fentanyl) and received an eight-year sentence to the Tennessee Department of Correction as a Range I offender, with credit for time served.
The judge described the plea colloquy on the record, asking Crave whether she had reviewed the charges with counsel and whether she understood the rights she was waiving by pleading no contest. Crave responded, “Yes, sir,” to those questions. The court also confirmed that Counts 1 and 3 would be dismissed as part of the agreement.
During the prosecutor’s statement of facts, the state said the offense date to which Crave pleaded was Feb. 3. The prosecutor told the court that an earlier incident on Dec. 16 involved an unresponsive person later determined to be an overdose, and family information and investigative work led officers to identify Crave as a seller. The prosecutor said Crave was Mirandized after her Feb. 3 arrest and provided a statement admitting to selling narcotics on that date; the prosecutor described those Miranda statements as part of the state’s evidence.
The judge confirmed that the plea would result in a conviction and that Crave understood the collateral consequences. The court announced the sentence as an eight-year TDOC term for a Range I offender with 30% release eligibility and credit for time served. The record reflects that Counts 1 and 3 were to be dismissed; the transcript includes a back-and-forth about fines and court costs with the court indicating “no fine and court cost,” which the record treats as confirmed.
No appeal or post-conviction motions were decided at the hearing. The transcript does not identify the presiding judge by name or the prosecutor’s full name.
The court’s acceptance of the plea and imposition of the agreed sentence conclude Crave’s matter on this docket for the time being.
