State of Tennessee v. Derrick Sloan Taylor

The Defendant, Derrick Sloan Taylor, was convicted by a Davidson County Criminal Court jury of felony murder, second degree murder, and especially aggravated robbery, a Class A felony. See T.C.A. §§ 39-13-202 (Supp. 2007), 39-13-210 (2010), 39-13-403 (2010). The trial court merged the convictions for felony murder and second degree murder and sentenced the Defendant as a Range III, multiple offender to life for felony murder and to forty years’ confinement for especially aggravated robbery, to be served concurrently with each other and consecutively to the Defendant’s sentence in another case. On appeal, he contends that the evidence was insufficient to support his convictions and that the trial court erred by admitting evidence of prior bad acts. We affirm the judgments of the trial court.