State of Tennessee v. Dwayne Hardy

In April 2009, a Shelby County jury convicted the defendant, Dwayne Hardy, of (1) especially aggravated kidnapping, a Class A felony, (2) aggravated assault, a Class C felony, and (3) aggravated robbery, a Class B felony. The trial court sentenced the defendant as a repeat violent offender to life without parole for especially aggravated kidnapping. The trial court further sentenced the defendant as a career offender to fifteen years for aggravated assault and thirty years for aggravated robbery. The court ordered the defendant to serve the sentences consecutively in the Tennessee Department of Correction. On appeal, the defendant argues that (1) the evidence was insufficient to support his especially aggravated kidnapping conviction, and (2) the trial court erred by admitting evidence that the police found in a garbage can. Following our review, we affirm the judgments of the trial court.