State of Tennessee v. Adrian R. Brown

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• holding that a trial court’s erroneous failure to comply with a statute did not render the defendant’s sentence illegal when it did not alter the sentence in any way
• holding that “Rule 36.1 does not authorize relief from expired illegal sentences”
• stating that determining the scope and proper interpretation of a rule of criminal procedure is a question of law
• stating that “[a] trial court’s failure to award pretrial jail credits does not render the sentence illegal”
• explaining that Rule 36.1 mirrors the habeas corpus definition of “illegal sentence” which does not cover expired sentences used to enhance a subsequent sentence for a separate conviction
• noting that Rule 36.1 differs from habeas corpus in part -4- by permitting the State to challenge an illegal sentence and that Tennessee Rule of Appellate Procedure 3 provides an appeal as of right from a trial court’s decision on a Rule 36.1 motion

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).