State of Tennessee v. Courtney Means

The defendant, Courtney Means, was convicted by a Shelby County Criminal Court jury of eight counts of aggravated robbery, a Class B felony, based on three separate incidents involving four victims. After merging the separate counts involving the same victim, the trial court sentenced the defendant as a Range I, standard offender to nine years for each of the remaining four convictions, with two of the sentences to be served consecutively, for an effective sentence of eighteen years in the Department of Correction. In this timely appeal as of right, the defendant challenges both the trial court’s application of enhancement factors to increase his sentences beyond the eight-year minimum for his range and its imposition of consecutive sentencing. Following our review, we affirm the judgments of the trial court.