STATE v. GRIFFITH


787 S.W.2d 340 (1990)

STATE of Tennessee, Appellee, v. Tony GRIFFITH, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Tennessee, at Jackson.

April 2, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark W. Fowler, Public Defender for 27th Judicial Dist., P.C. Mark MacLeod, Asst. Public Defender for 27th Judicial Dist., Union City, for appellant.

Charles Burson, Atty. Gen. and Reporter, Norma Crippen Ballard, Asst. Atty. Gen., Nashville, for appellee.


OPINION

COOPER, Justice.

In this appeal, the defendant challenges the constitutionality of T.C.A. § 40-36-106(e)(3), which grants the trial court authority to resentence defendant up to the maximum sentence provided for the offense committed, following revocation of defendant's community corrections sentence.

Defendant pleaded guilty to grand larceny on February 26, 1988. The trial court sentenced him as a Range I, standard offender, to a three...

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