State of Tennessee v. Rawney Jean Taylor
Syllabus
A Montgomery County Circuit Court Jury convicted the Appellant, Rawney Jean Taylor, of initiating a false report, a Class D felony criminally negligent homicide, a Class E felony and reckless endangerment, a Class A misdemeanor, and the trial court sentenced her to three years, two years, and eleven months, twenty-nine days, respectively. The court ordered that she serve the three- and two-year sentences consecutively for a total effective sentence of five years. On appeal, the Appellant contends that her three- and two-year sentences are excessive, that the trial court erred by ordering consecutive sentencing, that the trial court erred by denying her request for judicial diversion, and that the trial court erred by denying her request for probation. Based upon the record and the parties' briefs, we affirm the judgments of the trial court.
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- holding that the need for expert testimony “is sufficient to establish that the claim is a health care liability claim.”
- holding claimant asserted health care liability claims “[e]ven if expert testimony were not ultimately required to prove his claims”
- noting that a plaintiff’s pleadings could suffice to trigger the rebuttable presumption that a claim is a healthcare-liability claim under the TMLA
- acknowledging that documents that have not been filed nor introduced at the trial court level cannot be considered as part of the appellate record
- specifying that “directly related” means “an uninterrupted, close relationship or link between the things being considered”
- explaining that the Texas Medical Liability Act imposes a “threshold requirement that suits asserting health care liability claims must be supported by an expert report before litigation gets underway.”
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Judges: Judge Norma McGee Ogle
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