State of Tennessee v. Ramone Pierre Gholston

The Defendant, Ramone Pierre Gholston, was convicted by a Montgomery County jury of facilitation of first degree murder, a Class A felony, and facilitation of especially aggravated robbery, a Class B felony. The trial court sentenced the Defendant as a Range I, standard offender to twenty-one years for the facilitation of first degree murder and to ten years for the facilitation of especially aggravated robbery, to be served concurrently. On appeal, the Defendant contends that his sentence for the facilitation of first degree murder is excessive. Because no written waiver of ex post factor rights signed by the Defendant is in the record, the Defendant was improperly sentenced under the 2005 amendments to the Sentencing Act of 1989. We reverse the judgment of the trial court, and we remand the case for resentencing.