State of Tennessee v. Crystal Michelle Rickman

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Defendant, Crystal Rickman, was convicted by a jury of aggravated assault by strangulation or attempted strangulation and domestic assault. The trial court imposed an effective fifteen-year sentence, as a Range III persistent offender, to be served in the Department of Correction. On appeal, Defendant argues: that the evidence was insufficient to support her convictions that she was denied a fair and impartial trial because of inadmissible hearsay that she was denied the right to a fair and impartial trial because neither the State nor the defense called the victim to testify at trial that the trial court erred by failing to instruct the jury as to the missing witness rule that the trial court erred by not allowing her to call witnesses to testify at the motion for new trial hearing and that her sentence was excessive. Following our review of the entire record and the briefs of the parties, we affirm the judgments of the trial court.