State of Tennessee v. LaCurtis Odom

The Defendant, LaCurtis Odom, was indicted on one count of premeditated first degree murder, a Class A felony; one count of first degree felony murder, a Class A felony; one count of theft of property valued at more than $1,000, a Class D felony; one count of criminal attempt to commit especially aggravated robbery, a Class B felony; and one count of unlawful possession of a handgun by a convicted felon, a Class E felony. See Tenn. Code Ann. §§ 39-12-101, -13-202, -14-103, -17-1307. Following a jury trial, the Defendant was convicted as charged. The trial court imposed a total effective sentence of life plus eighteen years, twelve years of which were to run consecutively to the Defendant’s sentence in a previous case. In this appeal as of right, the Defendant contends (1) that the evidence was insufficient to sustain his convictions for premeditated first degree murder, felony murder, and attempted especially aggravated robbery; (2) that relative to the murder charges, the trial court failed to instruct the jury on the lesserincluded offense of reckless homicide; and (3) that the trial court erred by imposing consecutive sentencing. Following our review, we affirm the judgments of the trial court.