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Tennessee Supreme Court· 9/27/1999

State v. Lane

Citations

  • 3 S.W.3d 456
  • 1999 Tenn. LEXIS 430
  • 1999 WL 754391

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • recognizing that two additional findings must be made prior to ordering consecutive sentences only under the dangerous offender category
  • concluding that the State sufficiently proved the aggravating circumstance when the defendant engaged in sexual intercourse with the victim for over one month and terminated the conduct only after being confronted by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation
  • stating that the Wilkerson factors are confined to cases involving consecutive sentencing under Tennessee Code Annotated section 40-35-115(b)(4)
  • stating that the need for the additional Wilkerson findings arises in part because the “dangerous offender” provision “is the most subjective and hardest to apply”
  • stating that the Wilkerson findings that the sentences are necessary to protect the public and reasonably relate to the severity of the offenses apply only to consecutive sentences involving dangerous offenders
  • stating that the Wilkerson findings that the sentences are necessary to protect the public and reasonably relate to the severity of the offenses apply only to consecutive sentences involving dangerous offenders

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Birch, Anderson, Drowota, Holder, Barker

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Cites

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