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Bentley v. State

Citations

  • 938 S.W.2d 706
  • 1996 Tenn. Crim. App. LEXIS 569

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  • holding that similarities between a community corrections sentence and probation justify using similar revocation procedures
  • concluding that it was error to deny probationer notice of violation and a hearing
  • concluding that the community corrections office was not a penal institution and that a defendant who left the community corrections office after learning that his community corrections sentence was revoked could not be convicted of escape from a penal institution
  • community corrections and probation closely resemble each other and require the same revocation procedures

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Judges: Peay, Smith, Byers

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